central excise and service tax

A tax assessee has to deal with the problem of delay almost every time it interacts with the tax authorities. This delay is sometimes due to the system of tax administration, which imposes unnecessary and unreasonable restrictions in the name of checking evasion of taxes. Sometime it is arbitrary whim of the tax administrator, employed to harass an assessee. Full Article

ACES stands for Automation of Central Excise and Service Tax. It is a centralized, web based software application which automates various processes of Central Excise and Service Tax for Assessees and Department, and gives complete end to end solution. Any Assessee can register with Department using ACES application, can file tax return, claims & intimations, track its status and get online messages. Full Article

The Department has started sending Emails to all the existing Assessees as "Central Board of Excise & Customs has developed a new software application called Automation of Central Excise & Service Tax (ACES) to do on-line transactions with the Central Excise & Service Tax departments i.e. filing your Central Excise/ Service Tax returns, claims and intimations etc. Full Article

The new centralised system for processing excise and service tax which would the save tax payer’s time and money would be rolled out across the country by the end of this year, CBEC Additional Director General of Systems D P Dash said here.  The new system– Automation of Central Excise and Service Tax (ACES) – [...] Full Article

Public sector companies can now seek advance ruling on Customs, Central Excise and Service Tax matters. Also, Indian companies (those considered as resident under the Income-Tax law) have now been allowed to seek advance ruling on project imports. The Center’s move to extend the advance ruling facility to public sector companies comes nearly a decade [...] Full Article

`Happy to help you’ may remind you of the famous ad of a private telecom services company, but the Income Tax (I-T) department is also eager to tell large corporate taxpayers roughly the same thing.So, client executives and relationship managers — so far confined to the private sector and especially service providers — have now [...] Full Article

Filing that service tax or excise duty for small and medium businesses on time are about to become easier, considering the developments at the Central Board of Excise and Customs. The announcement of a new ‘E-payment service’ and ‘Automated Central Excise and Services’ was made today at the FAPCCI Bhavan, where the National Academy of [...] Full Article

The Central Excise and Service Tax Department has launched a pilot project for the implementation of Automation of Central Excise and Service Tax (ACES) in the Bhubaneswar-II Commissionerate. ACES is a new centralised and Web-based software application that aims to automate all core processes of excise and service tax. The pilot project was launched at [...] Full Article