GST — Migration of existing Central Excise and Service Tax assessee to GST - GST - TRADE NOTICE No. 16/2016

OFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONER OF CUSTOMS, CENTRAL EXCISE SERVICE TAX HYDERABAD-IV COMMISSIONERATE POSNETT BHAVAN : TILAK ROAD : RAMKOTE : HYDERABAD-500001 C. No. V/08/01/2016-Tech Date: 18.01.2017 TRADE NOTICE No. 16/2016 Sub: GST - Migration of existing Central Excise and Service Tax assessee to GST - regarding. Attention of the members of trade, industry and all concerned is invited to the subject matter mentioned above. 2. As per Section 166 of draft CGST Act read with relevant rule, every central excise / service tax assessee having a valid PAN shall be granted registration under GST regime on a provisional basis. For such assessees, GSTN shall generate provisional IDs and communicate same to the assessees through CBEC for migration to the GST regime. The director general of Systems, CBEC has made necessary arrangements for communicating the provisional IDs for the existing Central Excise and Service Tax Registrations for migration to GST through the ACES portal (www.aces.govin). The entire procedure is described in the guidance note CBEC will be organizing awareness campaigns/ outreach programs such as workshops/ seminars to the tax payers for facilitating them to migrate to GST. 3. Communication to the Central Excise/ Service Tax Taxpayers on migration GST Dear Central Excise/ Service Tax Taxpayers Greetings from Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC). We thank you for your duty/ tax payments which have contributed to Nation building. As you are aware, roll out of Goods and Services Tax (GST) is scheduled from 01.04.2017. The taxes of Central Excise and Service Tax would be subsumed in the GST. So as a Central Excise/Service tax taxpayer you need to take certain action to migrate to the GST regime. In case you are also registered with State Commercial Tax dept (VAT/Luxury Tax/ Entry Tax/ Entertainment Tax), you may have already initiated this process of migration and no further action suggested below would be applicable to you. A schematic representation of the migration process is given below: In order to migrate to GST, you need to have a provisional ID and password. These details you can obtain by logging into ACES portal (www.aces.gov.in). These details are being obtained from GSTN and you may periodically log in to see your status. You are required to use the provisional ID and password to log into GSTN portal (www.gst.gov.in) to fill up the required details and upload the supporting documents. After you provide the requisite details, an ARN (Application Reference Number) would be communicated to you by GSTN. Once you have the ARN, you would migrate to GST on the scheduled GST roll out date with issue of Provisional Certificate. Please note: In case your Central Excise or Service Tax registration does not have a valid Income Tax PAN number, you need to obtain the PAN number and update your registration details on to ACES portal before you can be migrated to GST. You may visit www.cbec.gov.in or www.aces.gov.in to know more about the process of migration to GST. In case of any difficulty or query, please contact your jurisdictional Central Excise/ Service Tax officers or call the following helpdesk numbers: CBEC : 1800-1200-232. GSTN: 0124 4688999 Nodal Officers for Hyderabad IV Commissionerate and Divisions are given below Commissionerae/Division Name of the Officer Designation Contact No. Hyderabad IV Commissionerate Dr. Manjula D Hosmani Additional Commissioner 040-24760800 Kukatpally Division K. Muralidhar Additional Commissioner 040-23060064 Jeedimetla Division Durishetty Anudeep Additional Commissioner 040-27750401 P. Rejendra Prasad Superintendent 040-27750401 Balanagar Division CH. Kusuma Kumari Superintendent 040-27955936 Medchal Division R. Srinivas Superintendent 040-27954288 Service Tax Division-I G. Samraj Kumar Superintendent 040-24760797 Service Tax Division-Il C. Devamani Superintendent 040-24764572 You can also send mail at [email protected]. (A.R.S. KUMAR) COMMISSIONER