Service Tax— Conversion Of Non-PAN based registration to PAN based registration - Service Tax - Service Tax Trade Notice No. 8/2016.

OFFICE OF THE PRINCIPAL COMMISSIONER: SERVICE TAX-I COMMISSIONERATE TTMC/BMTC BUS STAND COMPLEX, BANASHANKARI, BENGALURU - 560 085 C. No. IV/16/34/2016 Comp Dated: 30.11.2016 Service Tax Trade Notice No. 8/2016. Sub: Service Tax- Conversion Of Non-PAN based registration to PAN based registration - Regarding. It is brought to the notice of the Trade that the Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC) vide para 2(ii) CBC's Order No. 01/2015-Service Tax, dated 28th February, 2015, has made PAN mandatory for registration (except Government Departments not having PAN) and has instructed to move the existing non-PAN based registrations to PAN registrations, failing which the temporary registration will be cancelled. 2. It is seen that 7,858 assessees are functioning in the jurisdiction of this Commissionerate, having non-PAN registration, the list of which is available on the Department website www.centralexcisebangalore.gov.in. The non-PAN based assessees are called upon to obtain PAN and apply/amend ST-I online for conversion of their temporary registrations to PAN based registrations before 31st December, 2016, failing which the temporary registrations shall stand cancelled without further intimation. In view of the upcoming implementation of CST, the temporary registration thus cancelled will cease to exist and the available data shall not be migrated to GSTN. 3. It is also observed that in respect of a large number of registrants, the email ID and phone numbers provided during the registration are either not in proper format or are invalid as on date. Hence, in view of ensuing implementation of GST, all the assessees are requested to update valid communication details in their registration profile, failing which, migration to GST database will not be complete. 4. All the Trade Associations are requested to give wide publicity to the contents of the above mentioned Trade Notice amongst their members/constituents. (G. Naryanaswamy) Commissioner