{"id":72079,"date":"2025-07-20T21:31:03","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T16:01:03","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-07-20T21:31:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T16:01:03","slug":"commercial-taxes-dept-in-karnataka-sets-up-helpline-after-bribe-complaints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/?p=72079","title":{"rendered":"Commercial Taxes Dept in Karnataka sets up helpline after bribe complaints"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Commercial Taxes Dept in Karnataka sets up helpline after bribe complaints<BR>GST<BR>Dated:- 20-7-2025<BR>PTI<BR>Bengaluru, Jul 20 (PTI) The Commercial Taxes Department in Karnataka has launched a dedicated helpline to combat corruption and take strict action against erring staff, particularly in response to complaints about bribe demands related to UPI-linked matters.<br \/>\n\tThe department, in an official statement on Sunday, said it had received information from the media and other sources that certain officers and staff had allegedly &#8220;demanded bribes&#8221; in connection with UPI-related issues.<br \/>\nIt also noted that a few middlemen were demanding money from traders under the &#8220;pretext of offering assistance&#8221; in such cases.<br \/>\nTaking serious note of the<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Plain text (Extract) only<\/strong><BR>For full text:-<a href=\"https:\/\/www.taxtmi.com\/news?id=49977\">Visit the Source <\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n<p>artment.<br \/>\nHe clarified that GST is a central government initiative.<br \/>\n&#8220;The GST Council functions under the purview of the central government, not the state government. So, how is the state government responsible for it,&#8221; Siddaramaiah told reporters in Mysuru.<br \/>\n&#8220;We will speak to the Government of India. If there&#39;s anything related to the Commercial Taxes Department, we will discuss and take a decision,&#8221; he added.<br \/>\nIt is also learnt that traders are uniting against UPI and are planning a protest on July 25.<br \/>\nHe reiterated that the &#8220;state government is not responsible for these developments.&#8221; \tDeputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar also held the BJP-led central government accountable, saying it was responsible for introducing GST and the &#8220;challen<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Plain text (Extract) only<\/strong><BR>For full text:-<a href=\"https:\/\/www.taxtmi.com\/news?id=49977\">Visit the Source <\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commercial Taxes Dept in Karnataka sets up helpline after bribe complaintsGSTDated:- 20-7-2025PTIBengaluru, Jul 20 (PTI) The Commercial Taxes Department in Karnataka has launched a dedicated helpline to combat corruption and take strict action against err<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72079\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}