“Sometimes doing the best is not good enough. Sometimes you must do what is required.”
― Winston S. Churchill
Present Organization Structure CE &ST |
|
Central Excise Zones | 23 |
Service Tax Zones | 4 |
Central Excise Commissionerates | 119 |
Service Tax Commissionerates | 22 |
Audit Commissionerates | 45 |
Commissioner (Appeal) | 50 |
Large Taxpayers’Units | 5 |
Central Excise Divisions | 587 |
Service Tax Divisions | 150 |
Audit Circles | 225 |
Central Excise Ranges | 2966 |
Service Tax Ranges | 680 |
Important Recommendations of WG
- No major shake up in structure to avoid ‘rocking the boat’
Factoring in of Revenue along with Tax-payer base
- Hybrid model of Functional and Territorial jurisdiction
- Functional/ industry specialisation to be limited to Division for the present
- Verticals namely DGCEI, NACEN, Systems, TPS to be strengthened and AR(GST) to be created.
- Adjudication to stop at Addl Commissioner level
Inputs received
- TARC Report and CX9 comments thereon
- DG, Audit
- Shri M. Vinod Kumar, Chief Commissioner, Central Excise, Bangalore Zone
- Shri S.C. Varshney, Chief Commissioner, Central Excise, Mumbai-I
- Service Tax, Mumbai Zone
- Pune Zone
- Nagpur Zone
- Vadodara Zone
- Hyderabad CX Zone
- Chennai ST Zone
- Ms. Seema Jere Bisht, ADG, RMD
- Shri S. P. Sahu, Commissioner
- Shri Kumar Santosh, Commissioner
- IRS (C&CE) Association Bihar & Jharkhand Chapter
- Customs (Preventive) Patna
- Shri Ravneet Singh Khurana, Deputy Commissioner (GST)
- Shri Vishnu Kumar, DC, Bhubaneshwar
- Shri Satish G., AC, Salem CX
Proposed Structure
Major features
No additional post being asked for
- Matching of the existing staff strength with the future requirement
GST Commissionerate being proposed for every 15000-20000 assessee, and Rs 5000 Cr revenue
- Each State, except those with very small Assessee-base, to have at least one GST Commissionerate
Each GST Commissionerate to have 5 Divisions and 50 Ranges
- In general, one Audit and one Appeal Commissioner for each set of two GST Commissionerates
24 Zones, 107 GST Commissionerates and 53 Audit and 53 Appeal Commissionerates proposed.
- Footprints of Directorates like DGCEI, DGTPS, NACEN, Systems and Authorised Representatives in Tribunal being increased
GST Commissionerates to look after CGST and IGST work. To also look after the exclusive Central Excise work as well as legacy issues
- Addl./Jt. Commissioner to be the highest adjudicating authority and few Additional Commissioners to head Sub- Commissionerates
Present infrastructure taken into consideration while suggesting location within state
- DG, Dispute Resolution is being proposed. Specialized Adjudication vertical proposed in 7 major cities.