Re-shuffle in state taxation dept.

Ludhiana: In major re-shuffle in the state taxation department, seven new officials have joined the department’s ranges, mobile wing and audit dept as state tax officer (STO) equivalent to pre-GST designation of ETO. The orders in these regard were issued by financial commissioner (taxation) A Venu Prasad recently and along with Ludhiana, transfers and postings of 27 more officials had been done in other districts and divisions, and that too only for STO. 

In the office of state taxation department, Ludhiana, STOs Davinder Singh and Harvir Kaur have been posted to Ludhiana-2 range, while Amritdeep Kaur and Gurdeep Singh have joined as STOs of Ludhiana-3 range. Similarly, Sumit Thapar and Navjot Singh have been posted as STOs in the mobile wing, Ludhiana, while STO Moti Khan has been posted in audit wing of Ludhiana zone. 

Meanwhile, no postings have been done on other designations and the officials serving on these charges earlier, who have been relieved, have joined their newly allotted assignments as the posting orders were issued on December 30. 

Ludhiana department recently grabbed limelight when its SIT arrested three persons who had claimed fraudulent input tax credit (ITC) created by way of bogus invoices without actual purchase of goods.