a) Annex I – contains a brief summary of the amendments made vide various notifications to the existing Tariff and Non-Tariff notifications and issuances of new rules namely the Articles of Jewellery (Collection of Duty) Rules, 2016. b) Annex II – contains a brief summary of clarifications and instructions issued by way of circulars.
This year in CASS, two types of cases are selected for scrutiny, one is ‘Limited Scrutiny’ and other is ‘Complete Scrutiny’. The type of case – ‘Limited’ or ‘Complete’ — is displayed on the notice issued u/s 143(2), ‘Scrutiny Register’, ‘MIS Report’ and on the screen showing details of the case.
The Income Tax Department has received information about large value transactions relating to you under the Annual Information Return (AIR) without a valid PAN. The list of such transactions is provided. You are requested to submit the on-line response as under:
Kindly refer to the above subject. Directorate of Systems has processed non-PAN AIR transactions which resulted in identification of around 7 lakh high risk transaction clusters having around 14 lakh non-PAN AIR transactions. These transactions have been assigned priority rating P1 to P3 (P1 being the highest priority) and each non-PAN AIR transaction has been assigned a unique Transaction Sequence Number (TSN) for monitoring purposes.
Rule 6(2) of the Service Tax Rules, 1994 stipulate that while every assessee shall pay service tax electronically through internet banking, the jurisdictional Deputy/Assistant Commissioner, may, for reasons to be recorded in writing, allow the assessee to deposit service tax by any other mode.
As you are aware, in order to reduce litigation, Government has come out with an Indirect Tax Dispute Resolution Scheme, 2016 in this year’s Budget. The scheme provides an opportunity to an assessee whose cases are pending before Commissioner (Appeals), to pay the duty, interest and penalty equivalent to 25% of penalty imposed and file a declaration, consequent to which the proceedings would be closed and immunity from prosecution granted except in certain cases.
The Department of Administrative Reforms & Public Grievances has been regularly monitoring and analyzing the disposal of Public Grievances in various Ministries/Departments. It is hereby observed that Ministries/Departments take considerable time to return back the grievances which do not pertain to them to the nodal Departments.
It is observed that benefit of Notification No. 24/2005 dated 01.03.2005 (Sr. No. 3) (as amended by Notification No. 132/2006-Customs dated 30.12.2006 (Serial No. 15)} is extendable to Micro/Mini SD cards classified under CTH 8523 51 00 of the first schedule of the Customs Tariff.
The Direct Tax Dispute Resolution Scheme, 2016 was introduced with effect from 01.06.2016 to address the issue of pending litigation before CsIT (A). Tax payers stand to benefit by a timely disposal of their litigation, while the Department stands to reduce its administrative cost in disposing appeals and also to collect its due taxes. Therefore, it becomes expedient on the part of all officers to ensure that the Scheme is a resounding success.
The Public Financial Management System (PFMS) which is administered by the Controller General of Accounts in the Department of Expenditure is an end-to-end solution for processing payments, tracking, monitoring, accounting, reconciliation and reporting.
