Directorate General of GST Intelligence (DGGI)

Directorate General of GST Intelligence (DGGI)

Subject – Economy

Context – Directorate General of GST Intelligence (DGGI) said it recovered a total cash of ₹197.49 crore, 23 kg of gold and offending goods of high value after searches on a perfume-compound company

Concept –

• Erstwhile Directorate General of Central Excise Intelligence (DGCEI), now renamed as Directorate General of GST Intelligence (DGGI), is an apex intelligence organization functioning under the Central Board of Indirect Taxes & Customs, Department of Revenue, Ministry of Finance.
• It is entrusted with the task of collection, collation and dissemination of intelligence relating to evasion of Goods and Services Tax (GST) and duties of Central Excise and Service Tax on an all India basis.
• It was founded in 1979 as the Directorate General of Anti-Evasion and was later renamed the Directorate General of Central Excise Intelligence.
• The agency was renamed as Directorate General of GST Intelligence (DGGI) after the introduction of the Goods and Services Tax.
• The agency is part of NATGRID.
• The organisation is staffed by officers of Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs.

Role of DGGI

• The role of the Directorate General in tackling the menace of duty evasion is manifolds.
• It develops intelligence, especially in new areas of tax evasion through its intelligence network across the country and disseminates such information, by issuing Modus Operandi Circulars and Alert Circulars to sensitize the field formations about the latest trends in duty evasion.
• Wherever found necessary, this Directorate General, on its own or in co-ordination with field formations, organizes operations to unearth evasion of GST, Central Excise Duty and Service Tax.