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The Board vide Circular No. 113/07/2009-ST had laid down the procedure for carrying out detailed scrutiny of Service Tax Returns (ST-3) and had circulated a return scrutiny manual for Service Tax.
The Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC or the Board) vide Circular No. 185/4/2015-ST dated June 30, 2015 had laid down the procedure for carrying out detailed scrutiny of Service Tax Returns, to be followed by the Revenue with effect from August 1, 2015. Now, on similar line, the Board has now issued instructions/ guidelines on detailed scrutiny of Central Excise Returns vide Circular No. 1004/11/2015-CX dated July 21, 2015 (the Circular)
A returns scrutiny process consists of two parts viz. preliminary scrutiny and detailed scrutiny. While the preliminary scrutiny system covers all the returns filed online, detailed scrutiny system covers a few returns selected on the basis of identified risk parameters.
The Central Board of Excise and Customs had issued detailed guidelines in 2009 to its field formations on conducting detailed manual scrutiny of service tax returns. In view of the legal changes brought about by the Negative List based taxation of services and administrative changes like creation of separate Commissionrates for Audit etc, these guidelines […]
CBEC vide Circular No. 113/07/2009-ST dated April 23, 2009 had laid down the procedure for carrying out detailed scrutiny of Service Tax Returns (ST-3 Returns) and had circulated a Return Scrutiny Manual for Service tax.
With the introduction of the Point of Taxation Rules, 2011, which shifted the liability of payment of service tax from receipt basis to accrual basis, and the advent of negative list-based comprehensive taxation of services in 2012, it was felt that the guidelines for detailed scrutiny of returns needed a revision. In this background, it has been decided that detailed scrutiny of ST-3 returns, with effect from 01.08.2015, should be carried out
CIT (A) appeal as well as ITAT examined the document relied upon the revenue for making addition. It was found that the document was not addressed to anyone and without any signature and date. In such situation it can be said that it belong to assessee.
The locution `Enquiry’ is a term of wide and capacious connotation signifying and inherently carrying with it the burden to enquire, probe, delve, scrutinize, escalate and to congregate such vital and salient information as might be required to entrust and endow the charm of stepping into the shoes of scrutiny proceedings carried in due reference to the stipulations provided for by the Income Tax Act, 1961.
Service of notice, summon, intimation, requisition or order (by whatever name called) marks the very foundation and pedestal for the inception of any proceedings of whatever nature and by whatever name called and designated as the pinnacle and ace caveat for steeping into the shoes of legality.
Instruction No.1/2015 Clarification regarding applicability of section 143(1D) of the Income-tax Act, 1961- Vide Finance Act, 2012, section 143(1D) was introduced in income tax act which prohibited processing of income tax returns in case notice u/s 143(2) has been issued (i.e. scrutiny cases). Ambiguity arose as to whether the said sub-section applies to those cases as well wherein refunds have been applied in the returns, however the same has been issued notice for scrutiny assessment.
