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NEW DELHI: The Central Board of Indirect Taxes has asked its field formations to set up an internal mechanism to weed out duplicate notices to businesses and individuals for offences already being investigated by state goods and services tax authorities...
As per an internal assessment, there are about 10,000 cases where taxpayers have received notices from both the central and state GST authorities...
The matter was discussed at a recent meeting of enforcement officials from the central and state GST departments, chaired by union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman..
According to provisions under the Central GST Act, where an official under the State GST Tax Act or Union Territory Goods and Services has initiated proceedings, no action should be initiated by any other official under the CGST Act..
The official cited earlier said state GST officials are still not using technology fully, but once the investigation record is uploaded in the system, it is easy to avoid duplicate notices..
