Kolkata, Aug 31 (KNN) Raising concerns regarding many instances of frauds under the Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime, West Bengal Finance Minister Amit Mitra has written a letter to the Union Finance Minister asking for the setting up of task force having both State and Central officers to detect all cases of tax evasion.

Stating the economy is under huge loss of tax revenue due to this, he requested for the topic of GST fraud and its impact on overall GST collections to be discussed in-depth in the upcoming GST Council meeting.

He has also asked for the compilation of a list of all cancelled GSTINs with PAN, email addresses and other details, to be shared with all officers so that the same fraud is not investigated by multiple agencies.

In addition, he also suggested that the new return system with invoice matching needed to be put in place in October (for large taxpayers) and in January (for all taxpayers) without fail.