📢 Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said GST officers have detected 21,791 fake GST registrations and over Rs 24,000 crore of suspected tax evasion during a two-month-long special drive. 💼

In a written reply to a question in Rajya Sabha, the minister said to safeguard the interest of honest taxpayers and avoid extreme hardship to taxpayers, instructions have been issued from time to time, directing officers to exercise due caution and

care in the exercise of powers such as summons, provisional attachment of property, blocking of tax credit etc