https://www.taxtmi.com/circulars?id=300 Introduction of Excise Audit-2000 (EA-2000) as a phased, professionally conducted audit system with 15 days' notice to assessees, initial coverage of high-duty units, audits to be executed by specially trained staff supervised by senior officers, completion targeted in five to seven working days, prohibition on auditors exercising coercive enforcement powers (search, seizure, interrogation, arrest) and mandatory referral of enforcement matters to Anti-Evasion or Proper Officers; creation of assessee database, mandatory training, use of draft manuals pending finalisation, and establishment of monitoring and evaluation mechanisms including an EA-Monitoring Cell and periodic performance reports. en-us Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:00:00 +0530 Tue, 23 Sep 2008 11:42:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/circulars?id=300 Introduction of Excise Audit-2000 (EA-2000) as a phased, professionally conducted audit system with 15 days' notice to assessees, initial coverage of high-duty units, audits to be executed by specially trained staff supervised by senior officers, completion targeted in five to seven working days, prohibition on auditors exercising coercive enforcement powers (search, seizure, interrogation, arrest) and mandatory referral of enforcement matters to Anti-Evasion or Proper Officers; creation of assessee database, mandatory training, use of draft manuals pending finalisation, and establishment of monitoring and evaluation mechanisms including an EA-Monitoring Cell and periodic performance reports. Circulars Central Excise Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/circulars?id=300