The Goods and Services Tax Council is likely to consider a sweeping overhaul of tax enforcement at its October 7 meeting, including scrapping the power of GST officers to arrest taxpayers and requiring a court order for any arrest, in what could become the next major step in the government's Next-Generation GST reforms, PTI reported on Sunday.
The Council is also likely to consider raising the threshold for launching criminal prosecution from Rs 1 crore to Rs 5 crore, while narrowing prosecution provisions to keep routine disputes over classification, valuation and input tax credit (ITC) outside the criminal process.
