The Government is aware of instances where taxes are collected by many service providers, hoteliers, traders etc. from the customers but are not deposited in the Government’s account. Based on specific intelligence collected, detailed investigations are carried out and the due tax amount is either recovered or quasi-judicial proceedings are initiated. The details of such losses are as below:

Financial Year	No. of cases	Amount detected (Rs. Crores)
2015-16	1097	1501.49
2016-17	1086	1311.34
2017-18 (till Feb 2018)	743	766.67
Total	2926	3579.5

In order to encourage compliant behavior under GST, the Government has undertaken a massive awareness and educational campaign by regularly issuing advertisements in the media (Print/Voice/Visual) to educate the taxpayers about GST laws and procedures. Further, CBEC has conducted various workshops and town hall meetings to educate the taxpayers in this regard. In addition to this, social media (Twitter) has also been extensively used for disseminating information regarding GST laws, rules and tax rates.

The GST Council has constituted a Committee on invoices under the chairmanship of CEO, GSTN to examine the feasibility of generating invoices on the GST portal and to suggest an incentive scheme to encourage the taxpayers to upload their tax paid invoices online.

This was stated by Shri Shiv Pratap Shukla, Minister of State for Finance in a written reply to a question in Lok Sabha today.

Tax collection compliance: intelligence led detection and recovery measures paired with incentives to upload invoices online. Instances of taxes collected but not deposited by service providers have been detected through intelligence led investigations, resulting in recovery of dues or initiation of quasi judicial proceedings. To encourage compliance, the administration has pursued broad taxpayer education across media and meetings, and the GST Council has formed a committee to assess portal based invoice generation and propose an incentive scheme to encourage uploading of tax paid invoices online.