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The Union Government is presenting its Annual Budget 2015-16 on 28th February, 2015, which falls on Saturday. As it may not be a working day in certain offices, it is desired that all the offices of CBEC/field formations may remain open on that day, so that the changes made in the Budget and their impact on revenue can quickly be examined and analysed by the field formations so as to guide the trade properly and to bring to the notice of the Board any difficulties/anomalies etc. noticed in the tax proposals.
I am directed to say that the post of Joint Secretary (Customs) in the Central Board of Excise & Customs under the Revenue Headquarters is proposed to be filled up from among the eligible officers of IRS (C&CE) cadre. IRS (C&CE) officer in the grade of Commissioner of Customs & Central Excise is eligible for the said post.
Of late, it has been observed that a number of notices given by the officers in Grade ‘A’ for seeking voluntary retirement/resignation from the service are sent to the Board at the fag end of the expiry of the prescribed notice period of three months and that too without providing the requisite documents
It has been brought to the notice of the Board by certain Investigation Directorates that some of the Commissioners are not providing manpower to the Investigation Directorates for the purposes of conducting searches for one reason or the other.
whose respective jurisdictions are specified in Table III(A) and III(B) of the notification no 27/2014- Central Excise (N.T) dated the 16th September, 2014 , published vide number G.S.R. 651(E), dated the 16th September, 2014, for exercising the powers of the Central Board of Excise and Customs and for the purposes of assigning the cases for adjudication of show cause notices, delegated vide notification number 11/2007 – Central Excise (N.T) dated the 1st March, 2007, published vide number G.S.R. 151(E), dated the 1st March, 2007
Attention is invited to Notification no 38/2001 – C.E (N.T) dt 26-6-2001 as amended from time to time whereby the officers of various ranks of Directorate General of Central Excise Intelligence have been appointed by the Board as the officers of Central Excise of the corresponding ranks for exercise of all powers under the Central Excise Act, 1944 and rules made thereunder, throughout the territory of India.
It is noted with concern that recently in some cases CATs/Courts have imposed penalty on the Government on account of delay in filing or non-filing of reply affidavits in respect of the OAs/CWPs filed in the CATs/Courts despite ample opportunity having been given to the Government to file the reply affidavits.
You are advised to conduct a detailed analysis of overall revenue growth upto December, 2014 as compared to previous year, reasons for shortfall/gain, if any, along with sectoral analysis (major commodities/services and importers/assessees/taxpayers), projections from various ARM measures and projections for the current FY.
In the exercise of the power conferred under Section 5A (1) of the Central Excise Act, 1944, the Central Government under vide Notification No.04/2015-CE dated January 30, 2015 has provided the new method of imposition of Basic Excise Duty on Branded High Speed Diesel as follows:
Procedure for verification of the Procurement Certificate received from Central Excise /Customs Authorities and Monitoring of the receipt of Re-warehousing Certificates in respect of the imports cleared under EOU Scheme – reg.
