TaxTMI 
TaxTMI 
TaxTMI 
Regarding issues relating to Customs clearance at International Airports in India
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.... (Prev). All Chief Commissioners of Customs & Central Excise. All Commissioners of Customs / Customs (Prev). All Commissioners of Customs & Central Excise. All Directors General under CBEC. Subject: Issues relating to Customs clearance at International Airports in India - reg. ***** Sir / Madam, Attention is invited to Notification No.74/2005-Customs (N.T.) & 75/2005-Customs (N.T.) both d....
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....information is also not systematically utilized in cases where alerts have been issued by DRI, SIIB or other investigating agencies for monitoring and apprehending the targets. 3. Board has taken a serious note of the aforementioned matter and emphasizes the urgent need to put in place a mechanism to gather intelligence and undertake profiling of suspect international passengers. The advance det....
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....base. The lack of database has resulted in inadequate compliance of Board's instructions relating to identification of repeat offenders for deciding fitness for arrest and launch of prosecution. Further, unavailability of ready and easy-to-use database on habitual offenders leaves enough scope to adjudicate the cases of non-bonafide baggage with nominal fine and penalty by Customs authorities. In....
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.... a proper valuation database so that undue variation in assessable value can be curtailed and uniformity in assessment ensured. Accordingly, Board desires that in this direction the concerned Commissioners at all international airports shall develop a valuation database of items of high value that are commonly imported through passenger baggage. It is expected that while doing so, the Commissioner....