CBEC has already got the consent of the finance minister Arun Jaitley for a massive reshuffling of the existing Central Excise and Service Tax field formations
The indirect tax department is going through the massive overhauling to ensure smooth GST implementation from July 1.
More than 150-year-old apex body of indirect tax-- Central Board of Excise & Customs (CBEC) will be renamed as the Central Board of Indirect Taxes & Customs (CBIC).
CBIC will supervise the work of all the issue related with GST and customs field formations and directorates and assist the government in policymaking on GST.
CBEC has already got the consent of the finance minister Arun Jaitley for a massive reshuffling of the existing Central Excise and Service Tax field formations.
CBIC will be headed by the chairman and will be a six-member body. The chairman will be assisted by commissioner (coordination). In new set-up, CBIC will have a dedicated member for GST and central excise, who will be assisted by commissioner (GST) and commissioner (central excise).
Though experts assert that as information technology will play key role in GST, Sumit Dutt Majumder, former chairman, CBEC said, "Member (GST & Central Excise) should also have the charge of IT, since GST work would need constant interactions with the back-end IT facilities of the DG systems of CBIC, as well as with GSTN.
The reorganisation just one-and-a-half month before the introduction of GST would be fraught with tremendous risk, he said. "The GSTN has not yet been made fully operational with test runs on all the business processes, including invoice matching. The target should be shifted to September 1 for a smooth transition to GST".
There will be 21 GST zones, 102 GST taxpayer services commissionerates comprising 14 sub-Commissionerates, 768 divisions and 3969 ranges. New tax regime will have 49 GST audit commissionerates and 50 GST appeals commissionerates under CBIC. Existing 11 customs zones, 60 customs commissionerates and 10 customs appeals commissionerates will continue and will function under CBIC. Notification will define the geographical jurisdictions of GST formations which will be issued soon after government approval.
Two new Directorates are being created. Directorate General of Analytics & Risk Management and Directorate of International Customs. Both will be headquartered in Delhi.
Existing Directorate General of Central Excise Intelligence is being changed as 'Directorate General of Goods & Services Tax Intelligence (DGGSTI). DGGSTI will have pan-India jurisdiction and will be present in every state and Union Territories. The DGGSTI will be headed by New Delhi-based principal director general and be assisted by four sub-national directors general- director general (North), director general (South), director general (East) and director general (West) stationed at Gurugram, Chennai, Kolkata and Mumbai respectively.
Directorate General of Taxpayer Services (DGTS)
- DGTS will be important directorate in GST regime who will help taxpayers at "their doorsteps". DGTS will address the queries of taxpayers and will coordinate the resolution of taxpayers and their grievances.
- Three additional Zonal Units of the Directorate are being created at Bhopal, Ahmedabad and Bengaluru. Existing Zonal Units at Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata will also continue to function.
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