In exercise of the powers conferred by Section 35R of the Central Excise Act, 1944 made applicable to Service Tax vide Section 83 of the Finance Act, 1994 the Central Board of Indirect Taxes fixes a monetary limit of Rs 2,50,000/- below which appeal shall not be filed with the Commissioner (A).
A number of steps have been taken which has resulted in the reduction of the total pendencies of cases at the level of Commissioner (Appeals) and CESTAT. Firstly action plan was put in place to liquidate pendencies at the level of Commissioner (Appeals).
ITBA is designed as a comprehensive platform in which all the processes of Department can be completed online in the System. For performing any action on any proceeding in system, a key pre-requisite that the base order of the proceeding should exist in the system.
During the period of 1st to 15th June, 2018, all assessing officers shall accord top priority to work of giving appeal effect and passing the rectification orders, and shall earmark the first half of the day to meet applicants/ counsels who seek to have a hearing to explain their case.
I would also urge the officers to expedite the process of approval of GST Practitioners. A proactive approach in facilitating the enrolment and helping the applicants, in case they have committed any bona fide mistakes while making application, will only further our cause of achieving a trade-friendly image for the department.
Team GST comprising officers of the CBIC and the States have won the Prime Ministers award for Excellence in Public Administration this year.
After scrutiny of records for the years 2011-12 to 2016-17, it has been observed that the mandatory annual returns /accounts for some of the financial years in above period have not been found uploaded on the FCRA portal online by 3292 association. No. II/21022/58(069)/2018-FCRA(MU) Government of India Ministry of Home Affairs Foreigners Division FCRA Wing […]
The list of auditable cases for the period 1st September 2017 to 31st December 2017 has been made available in ITBA now, which includes cases of International Taxation, Central Circles and Exemption charges also.
Functionality to rectify Intimation u/s 143(1) for all ITR forms is now available through the Rectification module of Income Tax Business Application for Asst. Yrs. 2014-15, 2015-16, 2016-17. For earlier AYs, rectification can be done using AST module for now.
Functionality to rectify mistakes apparent from record in Appeal orders and Revision orders is now available to users through the Rectification module of Income Tax Business Application (ITBA). User may rectify mistakes in drafting of order including typos or other factual inaccuracies falling within the scope of section 154 which occurred in the original order. Similarly, mistake in recording of appeal decision can also be rectified.
