" IRS OFFICERS PROMOTED FROM THE GRADE OF SUPERINTENDENT OF CENTRAL EXCISE ARE ALSO MEMBERS OF AIACEGEO. THIS IS THE ONLY ASSOCIATION FOR SUPERINTENDENTS OF CENTRAL EXCISE AND IRS OFFICERS PROMOTED FROM THE GRADE OF SUPERINTENDENT OF CENTRAL EXCISE THROUGH OUT THE COUNTRY . President Mr.T.Dass and SG Mr. Harpal Singh.

Monday 3 October 2016

GST

ALL INDIA ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL EXCISE
GAZETTED EXECUTIVE OFFICERS
President:                                       Address for communication:                                     Secretary General:
R. Chandramouli                     240, Razapur, Ghaziabad-201001 (U.P.)                                        Ravi Malik
Mob. 08939955463 mail Id:ravimalik_sweet@yahoo.com, Site: cengoindia.blogspot.in    Mob. 09868816290
Vice Presidents: P. Parwani, L. L. Singhvi (Central); Anurag Chaudhary, Ravi Joshi (North); N. Raman, G. Srinath (South); B. K. Sinha, Ashwini Majhi (East); Rajesh Chaher, J. D. Patil (West) Joint Secretaries: Anand Kishore, J. S. Iyer (Central); R. K. Solanki, Ashish Vajpeyi (North); M. Nagaraju, Ajithkumar P. C. (South); P. K. Sen, S. Bhattachariya (East); Jasram Meena, M. K. Mishra (West) Office Secretary: C. S. SharmaTreasurer: N. R. Manda Liaison Secretary: A. S. Kundu Coordinator on Telangana: P. Shravan Kumar
(Recognised by G.O.I., Min. of Fin. vide letter F.No. B. 12017/10/2006-Ad.IV A Dt.21.01.08)
Ref. No. 156/AIB/G/16                                                                          Dt. 04.10.16
To,
            Sh. Arun Jaitely,
            Hon’ble Finance Minister, Government of India,
            North Block, New Delhi.
Sub: Retention of assessees above the annual turnover limit of Rs. 20 lakh p.a. with the Centre for the purpose of collection of CGST & IGST.
Sir,
            It is submitted with due regards that the Association  came to know through media that the 1st & 2nd meetings of the GST Council were held on 22nd/23rd & 30th September, 2016 wherein following decisions, inter-alia, were taken and consensus was arrived among Centre and States:
·         Exemption threshold for GST to increased to Rs. 20 lakh p.a. from Rs. 10 lakh p.a. as envisaged in draft GST Model Laws. For North-Eastern and Hilly states, the threshold exemption limit increased to Rs. 10 lakh from Rs. 5 lakh.
·         The manufacturers and suppliers having annual turnover ranging from Rs. 20 lakh p.a. to Rs. 1.50 crore p.a., who would be subjected to levy of CGST in lieu of Central Excise Duty (currently exempted from Central Excise Duty) would be controlled by States for the purpose of CGST & SGST both and thus, Central Government would have no control over these assessees.
2.         It has further come to notice of the Association that the States and their employees have now started demanding for their control over Service Tax assessees also falling within the annual turnover limit of Rs. 20 lakh p.a. to Rs. 1.50 crore p.a. due to a liberal stand shown by the Centre towards allocation of its Excise manufacturers having annual turnover ranging from Rs. 20 lakh p.a. to Rs. 1.50 crore p.a. to States. The Centre appears to be showing leniency towards States to implement GST at any cost w.e.f. 1st April, 2017.
3.         It is further submitted that CBEC and its officers & employees are smoothly, hassle-freely and effectively collecting Central Excise duty from 1944 and Service Tax from 1994. These officers and employees have always contributed the Indirect Taxes collection to the Union Government  always over and above the Budgetary Targets. The CBEC and its officers & employees have, thus, experience and expertise of more than 70 years for levy and collection of Union Indirect taxes which is missing with state officers. The CBEC has its establishment of field offices at least at each and every district level and spread its network of offices across the country.
4.         Further vide section 18 of the Constitution (one hundred and first amendment) Act, 2016, the Centre has to compulsorily compensate to all States for the loss of their revenue arising on account of implementation of GST for a period of 5 years. Thus, there will be another burden on Centre to collect more and more revenue of CGST so that a huge amount out of the CGST collected may be distributed amongst all States to compensate their huge (expected) loss of revenue for the next 5 years.
5.         In the above said circumstances, the Association strongly demands and request, yourself being the Union Finance Minister and Chairperson of the GST Council, that none of the assessees of Central Excise (to be levied CGST on the supply of goods) and Service Tax (to be levied CGST on the supply of services) should be transferred to the States for the purpose of levy and collection of CGST by the officers of States. All Central Excise and Service Tax assessees falling above the annual turnover of Rs. 20 lakh should necessarily be controlled by Centre and its officers only. No need to say that we require a strong & powerful Centre in our Federal system.
 6.         The CBEC and its officers only should be allowed to collect CGST and IGST under the forthcoming concerned statutes of CGST Act and IGST Act. On the other hand, the State Government officials should be allowed to collect only SGST on intra-state supply of goods and services. Any cross utilization of powers may lead to serious implications on collection of revenue to Centre.
7.         Accordingly, this Association strongly demands that all assessees of Central Excise and Service Tax falling above the annual turnover of Rs. 20 lakh p.a. should only be controlled by Centre for the purpose of levy and collection of CGST & IGST. Further, there should not be allowed any cross utilization of powers for collection of CGST, IGST and SGST among the Central Government officers and State Government officers.
8.         In view of the above, it is requested to consider all of above points to strengthen the Centre. It is also requested to consult the Associations of affected officers of CBEC to take any further decision on the GST. If ignored, these Associations would be compelled to initiate non co-operation movement as below as per the decision taken by the Associations under CBEC representing Group ‘A’ to ‘C’ officers in the meeting held in Mumbai on 01.10.16 towards the implementation of GST against the unilateral decisions taken by the GST Council-
i) Peaceful Lunch Hour gathering in front of the residence of your goodself on 14.10.16 to hand-over the Memorandum and Lunch Hour peaceful protests in front of every Headquarters Office throughout the country.
ii) Peaceful Lunch Hour protests on 09.11.16 in all CCA offices throughout the country.
iii) Wearing of Black Badge in all offices on 07.12.16 throughout the country.
iv) Day long protest programme in front of all CCA offices on 05.01.17 throughout the country.
v) Mass Casual Leave on Budget Day by all officers.
Yours faithfully,



(RAVI MALIK),
Secretary General.
Copy with the request for necessary action to:
1.      The MOS (Revenue), Department of Revenue, Ministry of Finance, North Block, New Delhi.
2.      The Revenue Secretary, North Block, New Delhi
3.      The Chairman, CBEC, North Block, New Delhi.




(RAVI MALIK)