ALL INDIA ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL EXCISE
GAZETTED EXECUTIVE
OFFICERS
President:
Address for communication:
Secretary General:
A.
Venkatesh
240, Razapur, Ghaziabad-201001 (U.P.)
Ravi Malik
Vice Presidents: Apurba
Roy, P. C. Jha (East); A. K. Meena, Somnath Chakrabarty (west); Ashish
Vajpayee, Ravi Joshi (North); B. Pavan K. Reddy (South); K.V. Sriniwas, T. J.
Manojuman (Central) Joint Secretaries: Ajay Kumar, R. N. Mahapatra
(East); B. S. Meena, Sanjeev Sahai (West); Harpal Singh, Sanjay Srivastava
(North); M. Nagraju, P. Sravan Kumar (South); Anand Kishore, Ashutosh Nivsarkar
(Central)
Office Secretary: C.
S. Sharma Treasuer: N.
R. Manda Organising Secretary: Soumen Bhattachariya
(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. 108/AIB/G/17
Dt. 24.04.18
To,
Ms. Ameeta
Suri,
Special
Secretary & Member, CBIC,
North Block,
New Delhi.
Sub: Pendency of
returns marked for R&C.
Madam,
Kindly refer to your DO letter
F.No.236/01/2016- CX-7 Dt. 17.04.18.
2. It is to submit with due regards
that the field formations have been asked vide above referred DO letter to
reduce the pendency of returns in ACES to “NIL” within a week. No need to
submit that our workforce including the Superintendents and Inspectors is doing
its best to do the needful.
3. It is to submit further that this
work is not so simple because of being time consuming particularly due to the
slowness or non-response of the system vs desired correctness and efficiency.
The officers are also facing technical problems and system errors due to improper
and slow functioning of the system. The system has become even slower by
attending of this work on mass level by our officers. They are already whole
time busy in the work of providing daily emergent reports of various kinds to
the higher authorities. Under the circumstances, the possibility of committing human
and unintentional mistakes due to the work pressure in such a short period can
also not be ruled out. Thereby, the officers will no way be responsible for
such unintentional mistakes (if any).
4. It is also worth to mention that
the Committee has itself accepted that the review and correction module
consumes 90% of our workforce and efforts, thereby leaving very little scope
for other important facets implying that the other works including the said
reduction in pendency require due time and can’t be accomplished in the haste. So,
the possibility of any error can’t be ruled out, if this work is forced to be
done in such a short time frame.
5. No need to mention also that our
ACES portal was not available for a few months due to the transition of Central
Excise & Service Tax to GST resulting in the pendency of a large number of
returns for R&C. Also due to massive reorganization under GST, the various
formations under different jurisdictional areas have been merged. The different
returns of Central Excise and Service Tax have also been merged into one. The
mapping anomalies of assesses are also being faced. These are also some of the
main reasons of huge pendency of the said returns. As observed by the C&AG,
no time limit was also earmarked for the review of the marked returns. So, this
also amounts to be the reason of pendency of returns to be scrutinized because
our officers posted in the field formations were always forced to be busy in
various other time bound works and reports relating to GST in addition to
hectic regular work. They are also under the fear of vigilance action for any
bonafide mistake under the process of doing a work in extraordinary haste which
is not humanly
possible. Thus, no need to say that the said work seems not to be humanly &
practically possible in such a short frame of time.
6. As you know, the field officers are
already engaged in various works including R&C scrutiny, lots of refunds,
dealing huge number of invoices of refunds, recurring demands, identification
of the non-filers of GSTR 3-B, various reports & returns, inspections, tran
1 checking, market surveys, post verification of premises, SCN & review
work, issuance of letters & mails to the assesses, sewa kendras etc. No
need to say that they are also working with acute shortage of manpower and
infra structure. They are also forced to work even in odd hours and on
holidays.
7. In view of the above, it is requested to grant the duly
reasonable time to the field formations to complete the work.
Thanking
you,
Yours sincerely,
(RAVI MALIK),
Secretary General.
Copy with
the request for necessary action to:
1) The
Finance Secretary, North Block, New Delhi.
2) The
Chairperson, CBIC, North Block, New Delhi.
