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New Delhi: The GST Council may take up a proposal to make biometric-based Aadhaar authentication mandatory pan-India for suspicious persons, seeking GST registration, CBIC chief Sanjay Kumar Agarwal said on Friday..
Currently, two states -- Gujarat and Andhra Pradesh -- and the Union Territory of Puducherry have launched Aadhaar authentication of taxpayers on a pilot basis...
Goods and Services Tax (GST) authorities have so far been using OTP-based Aadhaar authentication to establish the identity of the applicants, seeking registration...
However, with instances coming to light wherein other people's identity was misused to create bogus firms for claiming input tax credit (ITC), the CBIC had decided to move towards biometric authentication under which in certain suspicious cases, the person seeking registration will be asked to go to an Aadhaar centre to have his biometrics verified...
The Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) chief said the department has recently launched a concerted drive against the masterminds of syndicates, which are seeding fake ITCs...
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