Days after top tech companies such as Flipkart’s arm Instakart, Swiggy, Uber and Ola came under the radar of the income tax (I-T) department, the Director General of Goods and Services Tax Intelligence (DGGI) has sent show-cause notice to e-commerce giant Amazon India, according to the sources. The DGGI has issued notice to the company related to tax demand which has reportedly been calculated to about Rs 175 crore. DGGI investigation has allegedly found calculation errors made by Amazon. The company paid higher goods and services tax (GST) but instead of claiming refund took wrong input tax credit (ITC). The demand is for the interest due on the wrongly claimed ITC, according to the sources. The notices have been sent to Amazon’s Bengaluru office.
The Director General of Goods and Services Tax Intelligence (DGGI) has launched an investigation into ride-hailing firms Uber and Ola. The DGGI has issued summons to officials of the two companies related to alleged tax evasion worth hundreds of crores of rupees, according to the sources. The tax liability dues for Uber India has reportedly been calculated as about Rs 800 crore, while as for Bengaluru-based Ola, it has been set at around Rs 300 crore. However, according to the industry sources, two different tax intelligence teams based in different cities have calculated the dues for the companies and sent the notices based on their interpretation. “This has resulted in the calculation of the tax at the rate of 15 per cent for Uber and 6 per cent tax for Ola,” said an industry source.