Central Excise & Service Tax - Jurisdiction of the Principal Chief Commissioner / Chief Commissioner of Central Excise and Service Tax and Principal Commissioner / Commissioner of Central Excise and Service Tax with respect to the territorial jurisdiction - Issuance of Notification No. 12/2017 -Central Excise (N.T.) to 14/2017-Centra1 Excise (N.T.) all dated 09.06.2017 by the Central Board of Excise & Customs - Central Excise - TRADE NOTICE NO. 01/2017

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF FINANCE, DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE, OFFICE OF THE PRINCIPAL CHIEF COMMISSIONER, CENTRAL EXCISE SERVICE TAX, AHMEDABAD ZONE, CENTRAL EXCISE BHAVAN, REVENUE MARG. AMBAWADIS AHMEDABAD - 380015 F. NO. IV/ 10-02/CCO/GST/17- 18 DATED 16.06.2017 TRADE NOTICE NO. 01/2017 Sub: Central Excise Service Tax - Jurisdiction of the Principal Chief Commissioner / Chief Commissioner of Central Excise and Service Tax and Principal Commissioner / Commissioner of Central Excise and Service Tax with respect to the territorial jurisdiction - Issuance of Notification No. 12/2017 -Central Excise (N.T.) to 14/2017-Centra1 Excise (N.T.) all dated 09.06.2017 by the Central Board of Excise Customs Regarding. The Trade is hereby informed that the Central Board of Excise Customs (CBEC) has issued Notification No. 12/2017 -Central Excise (N.T.) to 14/2017 -Central Excise (N.T.) all dated 09 06.2017 which shall come into effect on a date to be notified later. Copies of the said notifications have been published in the CBEC website www/cbec.gov.in. 2. The trade is further informed that the purpose of these notifications is to appoint officers of various ranks as Central Excise Officers and assign them a jurisdiction different from the present one in order to legally empower officers in CBEC to undertake legacy work of Central Excise and Service Tax as well as Central Excise work in the post GST regime as per the new jurisdiction. Accordingly, the new jurisdiction of the Central Excise Divisions and Ranges are worked out as detailed in Annexure I to VI and would be effective from the date on which the notifications above come into effect. 3. The gist of the aforesaid notifications is furnished hereunder: [i] Notification No. 12/2017-CE (N.T) dated 09.06.2017 - Vests the Central Excise officers as various ranks with all the powers under the Central Excise Act, 1944 and Chapter V of the Finance Act, 1994. [ii] Notification No. 13/2017- CE (N.T) dated 09.06.2017 Notifies the jurisdiction of the Principal Chief Commissioner of Central Excise and Service Tax, Ahmedabad Commissionerates and the Principal Commissioners/ Commissioners or Central Excise and Service Tax, including Commissioners [Appeals] and [Audit], with respect to the territorial jurisdiction specified therein. Details are furnished in the annexure to this Trade Notice. [iii] Notification No. 14/2017-CE (NT.) dated 09.06.2017 - Delegation of powers to the Principal Chief Commissioner/ Chief Commissioner or Central Excise and Service Tax to assign show cause notices issued under Act. provisions of the Central Excise Act, 1944 and Chapter V of the Finance Act 1994 to the Central Excise officers sub-ordinate to them, 5. This Trade Notice is being issued so as to facilitate the Trade to know the jurisdiction of the reorganized Commissionerates, Divisions and ranges in the Ahmedabad Zone which will come into effect on a date to be notified 6. The Trade and Industry Associations/ Chambers of Commerce are requested t o bring the contents of the Trade Notice to the notice or all their members. 7. The jurisdictional Commissioners are requested to the inform all taxpayers presently functioning under their respective jurisdiction about the new geographical jurisdiction upto the level of the Divisions/ Ranges. The Commissioners are further requested to equip/ sensitize all the offices. especially those handling the Taxpayers Service Centre In each Conunisslonerate about the new jurisdiction and to provide necessary guidance to the taxpayers in identifying their jurisdictional Range. This will be used in Migration/ Registration etc under the proposed GST regime. (Ajay Jain) Chief Commissioner