News Date: 28 June 2022

Council has agreed to adopt Recommendations of GoM on system reforms, recommendations are:

• Using mandatory biometric authentication for high-risk applicants for registration under GST
• Identifying risky behaviour of the new registrants/applicants using Artificial intelligence and place the information on the back office for the field officer to carry out mandatory physical verification of these taxpayers
• Inclusion of Electricity Bill meta data (CA No.) as a data field during registration by new taxpayers. CA Number shall be verified to improve the quality of registered addresses in GST System
• Real time validation of Bank Accounts through integration of GST System with NPCI

Source: https://twitter.com/CNBCTV18Live/status/1541737780799082496