The process of migration to GST has been going since 20.01.2017 in Central Excise (when all Provisional IDs were made available to taxpayers via ACES website) and since 09.02.2017 in Service This migration process is for CE/ ST taxpayers who are not getting migrated through State VAT.
To ensure smooth transition to GST framework, the Drawback Committee is to formulate and recommend revised All Industry Rates (AIRs) of drawback on exports and/ or any other relevant drawback like rebate to be implemented for exports in the context of new GST environment and/or remnant tax structure.
Income Tax Employees Federation, New Delhi has intimated that they will go on One Day strike on 16th March, 2017 in persuasion of 21 Point Charter of Demands.
A SOP has now been prepared for effective, efficient and time bound handling of all the cases of service litigation by CBDT. All the field authorities should meticulously observe the prescribed guidelines within stipulated time limits as mentioned in the SOP.
It has been brought to the notice of Board that many banks are not accepting payments of tax/surcharge/penalty under Prime Minister Garib Kalyan Yojna (PMGKY) due to lack of awareness of prescribed challan and certain technical reasons.
Income Tax Department is enquiring/seeking information and analysing instances of deposits to identify cases involving risk of tax evasion. Based upon vast amount of information of cash deposits collected and analysed by CBDT, a number of persons have been identified in whose case the cash transactions did not appear to be in line with their profile available with the Income-tax Department (‘ITO’)
The online verification has been enabled on e-filing portal (for taxpayers) which will be synchronized with the internal verification portal (AIMS module of ITBA) of ITD. The salient features of online verification mechanism are as under:
Assessees should be requested that CAS-4 certificate of the financial year ending on 31stMarch shall be issued by 31st December of the next financial year.
ITBA Blogs, accessed through the ITBA Portal, is an online journal to share information within the Income Tax Department in an efficient, dynamic way.
List of Pr. CsIT charges where e-Nivaran is operational is enclosed herewith as per Annexure—A. Some of Pr. CsIT charges have not sent their replies or have been unable to upgrade ASK with e-Nivaran in their respective charges the list of which is separately enclosed herewith as per Annexure —B.
