India's Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime needs to plug leakages that cause tax evasion, which has increased in recent years despite stable collections, officials have said. The number of cases of GST evasion detected has increased to about 14,000 this year from 12,574 in 2021-22 and 12,596 in 2020-21. The growing evasion will, however, fuel further growth of GST collection if it can be stopped through efforts such as the use of end-to-end analytics examining entire supply chains and gap analyses of taxes paid in those chains.