By TIOL News Service

NEW DELHI, APR 14, 2017: LAUNCHING a new tradition of releasing a weekly newsletter the CBEC New Chairperson, Ms Vanaja Sarna, has stated that a proposal for promotion of 1981-82 batch to the Apex Grade has been sent to the UPSC. The proposal for 1993-96 batches for promotion to the grade of Commissioner is pending with DoP&T for ACC approval.

The Chairperson has also pointed out that the reorganization of the field formations of CBEC has been approved and the notifications for the new formations are planned to be issued in the first week of May, 2017. This reorganization may put pressure on some of the existing infrastructure and may require setting up of new infrastructure. At present, 86 infrastructure projects are pending approval at various levels, of which 17 are being monitored by the Revenue Secretary and 10 by Member (Admn). One of the main reasons observed for delay in getting approvals was that the queries raised are not being responded to by the field formations in time. Ms. Sarna requested the officers to expedite the pending replies at their level.

She also acknowledged that the Service Tax Mumbai Zone has formulated certain best practices for Additional Revenue Mobilization in Service Tax with the help of Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW). This compilation has been circulated to all Chief Commissioners by Mr S Ramesh Member (CBEC). She has urged to make full use of these and also share best practices being followed  with others.

She also expressed her confidence that they would strive to achieve the indirect tax budget estimate (BE) for current FY 2017-18 pegged at Rs. 9.25 lakh crore while maintaining high standards in indirect tax administration and facilitating taxpayers at every level.