I am sure that by now, all the Chief Commissioners (CC) and the Directors General (DG) have already relieved the concerned officers in compliance with various transfer orders of AGT, 2017 mentioned in DGHRDs letter 7th June, 2017. In case this has not been complied with by any CC/DG, they would need to give me an explanation for non compliance. In any case, no salary should be drawn for all those officers who are not relieved by 23rd June, 2017 and they will be deemed to be relieved.
I am directed to refer to the subject mentioned above and to say that during the meeting of representatives of ITGOA and ITEF under the Chairmanship of Chairman, CBDT, held on 27052017, one of the Issues discussed was ‘adhoc’ promotion on functional basis against the vacancies arising after promotion to Assistant Commissioner of Income Tax for vacancy year 2014-15 & 2015-16
On the GST front, as on date, 27 States/UTs have passed the SGST laws. The remaining States which are yet to pass the legislation are Jammu & Kashmir, Punjab, Kerala and Tamil Nadu.
Potential cases for prosecution u/s 276CC have been identified from NMS Cycle-4 cases on the basis of rules approved by Board. The Assessing Officers may be instructed to view the information and take necessary action u/s 276CC if the conditions prescribed u/s 276CC are fulfiled.
The Board, on consideration of report of the above Committee, in principle, has agreed to the broad concept of taxpayer segmentation with differentiated treatment and creation of a new ecosystem for conducting scrutiny assessments characterized by end-to-end e-process for scrutiny assessment, flexible function-specific jurisdiction for certain actions and pre-verification of information mismatch before full-fledged scrutiny.
The countdown to GST has begun. The statutory provisions are in place. As of today, 25 States have passed the SGST Acts, and others will follow soon. This puts us on track for the roll out of the new regime on 1st July, 2017
Regarding difficulty in updating mobile number in Aadhaar data by the GST applicant/tax payers who are required to migrate to GST regime. The tax payers may use Aadhaar based e-sign facility to register themselves on the GST platform which requires Aadhaar OTP.
In all interactions with Trade Industry and general public, it should be clearly indicated by officers at all levels that the target date of implementation is 1st July, 2017 only, and the implementation of this big reform will not be deferred beyond this date. Any speculation in any quarters regarding deferment or implementation date should be quelled effectively.
References have been received in the Board from field and Trade regarding the correct classification of Dioctyl orthophthalate (DEPH). A doubt has been expressed whether the said goods are classifiable under tariff item 2917 32 00 – – Dioctyl orthophathalate’ or under tariff item 2917 39 20 – – – Dioctyl phthalate.
The matter has been examined in the Board. In order to redress the issue, it has been decided that only in the rarest of rare and genuine cases manual processing and clearance will be allowed and data for manual documents is compulsorily entered and transmitted at all locations within the stipulated time period.
