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VAT release- 172 goods vehicles impounded in one night, 29 May 2016

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DIRECTORATE OF INFORMATION AND PUBLICITY
GOVERNMENT OF NCT OF DELHI
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PRESS RELEASE

Dated: 29.05.2016

  • Department of Trade and taxes takes up special night long drive to check goods vehicles
  • Record number of 172 vehicles bringing goods without bills impounded by the teams
  • All the SMs in Delhi were deployed and led the teams
  • 40 teams deployed at different entry points and major markets through out the night on 28th – 29th May
  • Goods seized include liquor, readymade garments, marble, granite, tiles, steel, cement, furniture, electronic items, foot wear, ply wood
  • Tax evasion of crores of rupees detected

The Department of Trade and Taxes took up a special drive to check the goods vehicles on the night of 28th-29th May, 2016. The drive was aimed at catching vehicles bringing good into Delhi without bills. Goods brought by such vehicles are sold unaccounted and thus evading huge amount of VAT. The Commissioner VAT Shri S. S. Yadav informed that all the Sub Divisional Magistrates (SDMS) of Delhi were deployed on the vehicle checking duty by the VAT Department for the first time. 40 teams were constituted which were led by SDMs and VAT officers. The teams were deployed at the entry points of Delhi, railway stations as well as in major markets.

Commissioner VAT Shri S. S. Yadav informed that the intensive vehicle checking drive was started from 11 PM on 28th May and continued till 6 AM on 29th May 2016. The teams checked 1650 vehicles. Out of the vehicles checked, 106 vehicles were found carrying goods without any bill or any other documents and were detained by the teams. Besides these, 66 vehicles carrying goods without the mandatory DS2 form were also detained. Thus 172 defaulting vehicles were impounded in one night.

Commissioner, VAT informed that total value of goods contained in the vehicles detained runs into many crores. The vehicles detained include containers, very heavy vehicles, heavy vehicles and medium goods vehicles. A detailed inventory of goods contained in each of the detained vehicles will be prepared and VAT assessment will be made. It is expected than the recovery of VAT and penalty from these vehicles will run into crores of rupees.

Shri Yadav informed that the owner of the goods of detained vehicles will have to pay the VAT on the assessed value of goods contained in the impounded vehicle. Besides this, penalty equal to the VAT calculated on the goods will also be levied upon him. In addition, the transporter of the goods/owner of the impounded vehicle also has to pay penalty of 20% of the value of goods being carried in the vehicle without bill. The owners of the goods in vehicles caught without DS2 will have to pay Rs 50,000 as penalty.

Commissioner VAT Shri SS Yadav further informed that a wide variety of goods were being carried in the vehicles detained. They included country liquor, Indian Made Foreign Liquor (IMFL), Granite, Marble, Tiles, Sanitary items, Steel, Cement, readymade garments, furniture, paper rolls, lights, auto parts, coolers, plywood, electric fans, mattresses, refrigerators, machines, spices, sports goods etc. The department will continue the drive and will deal firmly and strictly with the dealers evading VAT by bringing the goods into Delhi illegally and without declaring them beforehand.

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