Chinese mobile companies evade ₹9,000 cr in tax in India, ₹1,629 cr recovered
Chinese smartphone makers, including Oppo Mobile, Vivo India and Xiaomi Technology, have been found evading taxes worth ₹9,000 crore in India, Parliament was informed on Friday.
Data shared by the Minister of State for Electronics and IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar in Rajya Sabha showed tax evasion of around ₹9,000 crore, comprising customs duty and GST, has been detected between 2018-19 and 2022-23.
The government has recovered ₹1,629.87 crore from the companies during the period.
According to the data, Oppo Mobile India Pvt Ltd has been found evading ₹5,086 crore in taxes which includes ₹4,403 crore in customs duty and ₹683 crore in the form of GST.
Vivo has evaded taxes worth ₹2,923.25 crore comprising ₹2,875 crore in customs duty and ₹48.25 crore in GST, according to the written reply by Chandrasekhar.
Tax evasion of ₹851.14 crore has been detected in the case of Xiaomi Technology India Pvt Ltd comprising ₹682.51 crore in customs duty and ₹168.63 crore in GST.
Chandrasekhar shared that customs duty evasion of ₹4,389 crore was detected in 2019-20 in the case of Oppo Mobile India Pvt Ltd, out of which ₹450 crore has been recovered.
Vivo India Mobile Pvt Ltd was found to be evading customs duty of ₹2,217 crore out of which ₹72 crore has been recovered in 2020-21.
In 2019-20, Xiaomi Technology India Pvt Ltd was found to be evading custom duty of ₹653.02 crore out of which ₹46 lakh has been recovered.
In 2022-23,Vivo Mobile India Pvt Ltd was found evading ₹658 crore.
According to the official data, Lenovo has evaded ₹42.36 crore GST.
Government has been able to recover ₹1,214.83 crore from Oppo, ₹168.25 crore from Vivo and ₹92.8 crore from Xiaomi, as per the official data.
The minister was replying to a question on the number of Chinese
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