GST Council may consider pan-India rollout of biometric-based authentication for registration: CBIC
New Delhi, Feb 2 (PTI) The GST Council may take up a proposal to make biometric-based Aadhaar authentication mandatory pan-India for suspicious persons, seeking GST registration, CBIC chief Sanjay Kumar Agarwal said on Friday.
Currently, two states — Gujarat and Andhra Pradesh — and the Union Territory of Puducherry have launched Aadhaar authentication of taxpayers on a pilot basis.
“That is giving encouraging results. The number of (registration) applications has come down in Gujarat. That is an indication that with these measures, the people who were using other’s identities to create fake ITC firms, are now in check.
“Going by the encouraging results, it seems now more and more states will opt for it or it can be made uniformly applicable to all the states because ultimately it is the revenue which is impacted by fake registrations,” Agarwal told PTI in an interview.
Goods and Services Tax (GST) authorities have so far been using OTP-based Aadhaar authentication to establish the identity of the applicants, seeking registration.
