TMI BlogBoards Circular No. 33/2011-Customs dated 29.07.2011 issued vide F. No. 450/180/2009-Cus.IV(Pt.) - Making E-payment of Customs duty mandatoryX X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... is invited to the Boards Circular No. 33/2011-Customs dated 29.07.2011 issued vide F. No. 450/180/2009-Cus.IV(Pt.) regarding Making E-payment of Customs duty mandatory. 2. E-payment facility at Customs locations was introduced in 2007 and is available through more than one authorised bank at all major Customs locations having ICES facility. Though voluntary, the facility has been made use of by numerous importers. Besides expediting the process of payment of duty and clearance of imported goods, the facility of e-payment has resulted in reduction of transaction costs. 3. In the aforestated background, in order to reduce the transaction cost of the importers and expedite the time taken for customs clearance the Boar ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... ii) IEC code copy; (viii) Address proof; (ix) For Public Ltd.- Signature to be verified from Principal Bank A/c. (b) The Central Board of Excise and Customs has set up a CUSTOM E-Payment Gateway (CEG) at ICEGATE (www.icegate.gov.in). The users who are already registered with ICEGATE will automatically be able to avail the facility of e- Payment as REGISTERED USER without any further registration process. However, even the users who are not registered with the ICEGATE can avail e-payment facility as an UNREGISTERED USER; (c) In the ICEGATE home page, a person can select the e-payment icon from the main menu or if the person is using any other module of ICEGATE (like document filing), he can ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... letion of the bank transaction; (j) The user must come back to the ICEGATE site to complete the transaction; (k) In case of an incomplete transaction or link failure, a VERIFY option is automatically activated against the concerned challan for verification of the duty payment details. In case of incomplete transaction, the Importer/CHA must go back to ICEGATE and select the VERIFY option against the challan. On selecting the VERIFY option, the importer/CHA is taken back to the site of the Bank for completion of the transaction. The VERIFY option must be exercised on the date of payment itself, and the option would be de-activated the next day; (l) After e-payment is made at CEG, ICEGATE will send the p ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X
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