STEEERING COMMITTEE OF
ASSOCIATIONS
IN CBEC ON GST
IRS Officers and Comprising of:
1. IRS
(IDT) Officers’ Association
2. All
India Association of Central Excise Gazetted Executive Officers
3. All
India Appraising Officers’ Federation
4. All
India Central Excise Inspectors’ Association
5.
All India Central Excise & Service
Tax Ministerial Officers’ Association
6.
All India Central Excise & Customs
Gr. C Drivers’ Federation
7.
All India Central Excise & Customs
(Gr.C Non-Ministerial) Officers’ Association
Mumbai, 01 October 2016
To
Sh. Arun
Jaitley,
Hon’ble Minister of Finance,
Government of India.
Respected Sir,
On the verge of the biggest fiscal reform
in independent India in the form of Goods and Service Tax that envisages ‘one
nation, one tax’, these associations representing the torch bearers of the
reform viz. the employees and officers of the indirect tax department of the
Union in their meeting held on 01 October 2016, had a detailed deliberation on
the development on GST (as has been gleaned from information available in the
public domain till date).
The general mood of the house represented
the apprehension and aspiration of the employees and officers. The main concern
of the meeting revolved around the moot point of ‘one nation, one tax’
vis-à-vis the reports wherein it appears that such unity of purpose is being
compromised at the expense of the growth of tax base and revenue. It may be
appreciated that the 85000 strong workforce of Central Government are
administering the indirect taxes of the Union over more than seven decades through
many stages and phases keeping pace with the technology and best practices that
prevailed across the globe. This workforce now stands united in furtherance of
defending the progress and the goal set by the Hon’ble Prime Minister.
Towards
that end the following Resolutions are adopted in the meeting of All
Associations in CBEC on 01/10/2016 at Mumbai (BKC):
1. Service Tax (services above threshold
level falling within GST) Administration to be in the exclusive domain of
Centre.
2. Dual Control of the Centre and the States (for
Goods) across the spectrum.
These two resolutions are
adopted keeping in mind the fact that during the transition period (3-5 years)
the main thrust of GST would be on increasing tax base and revenue. And during
the same material period centre is to subsidize any virtual revenue loss of the
states. To meet both the ends it is felt necessary that the administrative
pattern be continued with the centre.
3. Audit, Preventive/ Anti-evasion and
intelligence to be exclusively with Centre.
With an estimated overwhelming
presence of IGST transaction and threat of evasion across the states, and the
professional expertise of the central employees in these fields, this
resolution has been adopted.
4. Human Resource and the Organizational
matters should be finalized with the consent of all associations in CBEC.
On several counts the field
level officers and employees of the central indirect taxes department continue
to suffer the ignominy of weak or broken HR policies, and subject to worst kind
of stagnation among the central employees. Introduction of GST administration
provides an opportunity to address that.
Sir, we feel that the benefits
of pan-India foot prints of the central indirect taxes would be lost if the tax
payer base is handed over to the states without proper evaluation, and we expect
that our understanding would get due recognition and initiate a positive
response, and in favour of these resolutions the following action programmes
are also adopted in the meeting:
·
On 14th
October Lunch Hour gathering in front of the residence of the Union Finance
Minister & Lunch Hour demonstrations in front every Commissionerate
Offices.
·
As a
sequel to point no. 5 agitation program will be escalated culminating
observation of Mass Casual Leave on Union Budget Day.
Thanking
You,
With
due Regards,
(B.A.
Chakravarthi) (Ravi
Malik) (Abhishek
Kamal)
Secretary
General Secretary
General Secretary General
IRS
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