Kind attention is drawn to Hon’ble Finance Minister’s Budget Speech on the facility of maintenance of records in electronic form and authentication of records by Digital Signature for Central Excise assesses. Sub rule (4), (5) in Rule 10 and sub-rule (8), (9) in Rule 11 of Central Excise Rules, 2002 have been inserted vide Notification No. 8/2015-CE (N.T.) dated 01.03.2015 to initiate the implementation of the said facility.
Any entity desirous of organising or assisting in organising any stock exchange or clearing corporation or depository, or desirous of undertaking any other financial services relating to securities market, shall be a recognised entity and such an entity shall seek permission of the Board in accordance with the norms specified herein or as may be specified by the Board, from time to time.
I am directed to forward herewith the Central Action Plan for the First Quarter i.e. (April 2015 to June, 2015) of the FY 2015-16. You are requested to circulate the same amongst all the officers in your region for necessary action.
I am directed to say that all public sector banks have been requested by the Department of Financial Services, Ministry of Finance to ensure that tax deducted during the month of March, 2015 is remitted to the Government account in the month of March, 2015 itself.
Request for provision of data by Export Promotion Councils/ Commodity Boards/ Trade and Industry Associations for the purposes of the exercise for All Industry Rates (AIR) of Duty Drawback for the year 2015- reg.
AST INSTRUCTION NO.135 Representations from field formations have been received intimating that owing to certain technical problems certain cases could not be processed in AST. The reasons submitted by field formations are broadly categorized as under:
I am directed to ref to the above and to state that it has come to the notice of Board that In a recent incident, the Hon’ble High Court has passed certain remarks against the Department. It appears that the High Court had sought certain information regarding the case from the Departmental Counsel.
An online system viz. Anubhav has been developed for showcasing outstanding work done by the retiring Government employees during service. Instructions for use of this application by the retiring employees, Head of Offices/ Head of Departments in the Ministries/ Departments have been issued by this Department vide OM of even number dated 19.2.2015 and 5.3.2015
The Central Board of Excise & Customs (CBEC) is celebrating the Year 2015 as the Year of Taxpayer Services in recognition of the need to have ‘customer focus’ in our day-to-day functioning. The Tax Administration Reforms Commission (TARC) has devoted a full Chapter to ‘Customer Focus’ in its first Report.
In its endeavor to improve litigation management related to Direct tax cases in various courts, the Department has taken up a project titled “National Judicial Reference System” (NJRS). The NJRS project is being undertaken by the Directorate General of Income Tax (Legal & Research), Income Tax Department.
