Section 132 Kerala GST Ordinance 2017 : Punishment for certain offences

By | September 29, 2017
(Last Updated On: September 29, 2017)

Section 132 Kerala GST Ordinance 2017

[ Section 132 Kerala GST Ordinance 2017 explains Punishment for certain offences and is covered in CHAPTER XIX OFFENCES AND PENALTIES ]

Punishment for certain offences

132. (1) Whoever commits any of the following offences, namely:—

(a)supplies any goods or services or both without issue of any invoice, in violation of the provisions of this Ordinance or the rules made thereunder, with the intention to evade tax;
(b)issues any invoice or bill without supply of goods or services or both in violation of the provisions of this Ordinance, or the rules made thereunder leading to wrongful availment or utilisation of input tax credit or refund of tax;
(c)avails input tax credit using such invoice or bill referred to in clause (b);
(d)collects any amount as tax but fails to pay the same to the Government beyond a period of three months from the date on which such payment becomes due;
(e)evades tax, fraudulently avails input tax credit or fraudulently obtains refund and where such offence is not covered under clauses (a) to (d);
(f)falsifies or substitutes financial records or produces fake accounts or documents or furnishes any false information with an intention to evade payment of tax due under this Ordinance;
(g)obstructs or prevents any officer in the discharge of his duties under this Ordinance;
(h)acquires possession of, or in any way concerns himself in transporting, removing, depositing, keeping, concealing, supplying, purchasing or in any other manner deals with, any goods which he knows or has reasons to believe are liable to confiscation under this Ordinance or the rules made thereunder;
(i)receives or is in any way concerned with the supply of, or in any other manner deals with any supply of services which he knows or has reasons to believe are in contravention of any provisions of this Ordinance or the rules made thereunder;
(j)tampers with or destroys any material evidence or documents;
(k)fails to supply any information which he is required to supply under this Ordinance or the rules made thereunder or (unless with a reasonable belief, the burden of proving which shall be upon him, that the information supplied by him is true) supplies false information; or
(l)attempts to commit, or abets the commission of any of the offences mentioned in clauses (a) to (k) of this section,

shall be punishable, —

(i)in cases where the amount of tax evaded or the amount of input tax credit wrongly availed or utilised or the amount of refund wrongly taken exceeds five hundred lakh rupees, with imprisonment for a term which may extend to five years and with fine;
(ii)in cases where the amount of tax evaded or the amount of input tax credit wrongly availed or utilised or the amount of refund wrongly taken exceeds two hundred lakh rupees but does not exceed five hundred lakh rupees, with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three years and with fine;
(iii)in the case of any other offence where the amount of tax evaded or the amount of input tax credit wrongly availed or utilised or the amount of refund wrongly taken exceeds one hundred lakh rupees but does not exceed two hundred lakh rupees, with imprisonment for a term which may extend to one year and with fine;
(iv)in cases where he commits or abets the commission of an offence specified in clause (f) or clause (g) or clause (j), he shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to six months or with fine or with both.

(2) Where any person convicted of an offence under this section is again convicted of an offence under this section, then, he shall be punishable for the second and for every subsequent offence with imprisonment for a term which may extend to five years and with fine.

(3) The imprisonment referred to in clauses (i), (ii) and (iii) of sub-section (1) and sub-section (2) shall, in the absence of special and adequate reasons to the contrary to be recorded in the judgment of the Court, be for a term not less than six months.

(4) Notwithstanding anything contained in the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (Central Act 2 of 1974), all offences under this Ordinance, except the offences referred to in sub-section (5) shall be non-cognizable and bailable.

(5) The offences specified in clause (a) or clause (b) or clause (c) or clause (d) of sub-section (1) and punishable under clause (i) of that sub-section shall be cognizable and non-bailable.

(6) A person shall not be prosecuted for any offence under this section except with the previous sanction of the Commissioner.

Explanation.—For the purposes of this section, the term “tax” shall include the amount of tax evaded or the amount of input tax credit wrongly availed or utilised or refund wrongly taken under the provisions of this Ordinance, the Central Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 (Central Act 12 of 2017), the Integrated Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 (Central Act 13 of 2017) and cess levied under the Goods and Services Tax (Compensation to States) Act, 2017 (Central Act 15 of 2017).


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