New Online Facility from Central Board of Excise & Customs – Professional Opportunity for Members

A new online facility has been launched by the Central Board of Excise & Customs (CBEC) on 14th October. This new online service is called ‘Automation of Central Excise & Services Tax’ (ACES).

This new service is a new centralised web based software application of CBEC which provides us an online electronic interface with the department. ACES aims to reduce paperwork, visits to the department and transaction costs while increasing accountability, responsiveness, efficiency and transparency in indirect tax administration. The online facilities offered are many and include services such as registrations, filing of service tax returns, refund claims, filing of intimations, tracking, dispute resolutions and online viewing of our records. The Institute highly appreciates this service as it will make our work more efficient and linear.

Very few of our members have entered the excise and customs field of practice. However, now with ACES, I am sure it would attract more and more of our members to enter this field of practice, and would go a long way in widening the scope of professional opportunity. I hope that this service also enables our members to become more IT savvy while doing their work.

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1. Central Excise and Service Tax Department has launched a pilot project for the implementation of Automation of Central Excise and Service Tax
2. Excise Board on track to E-payment and Automated Central Excise and Services
3. The CBEC has launched ACES (Automation of Central Excise and Service tax) in Bangalore from 30th Sept 2009
4. Service tax returns can now be filed online
5. Government made available the facility for online registration and filing of Excise and service tax returns