Action Taken By the Government on the Observations/Recommendations contained in their 20th Report (16th Lok Sabha) of the Public Accounts Committee on “Non-compliance by the Ministries/Departments in timely submission of Action Taken Notes on the Non-selected Audit Paragraphs (Civil and other Ministries)

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....15 Order-Instruction<br>Central Excise<br>Instruction F. No. 238/15/2015-CX.7 Government of India Ministry of Finance Department of Revenue (Central Board of Excise & Customs) New Delhi, dated 16^th December, 2015 To, 1. All the Principal Chief Commissioners/Chief Commissioners and Principal Directors General/Directors General of Central Excise & Service Tax ....

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....nishing remedial/corrective ATNs on Audit paras. The Committee, further reiterated its earlier recommendation, and desired that a system of fixing responsibility for serious lapses be put in place. 3. Ministry has noticed generally the lapse on the part of departmental officers on issues such as non-detection of lapse during scrutiny of returns, no scrutiny of returns, non-detection of lapse du....

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....ed instructions vide Circular No. 1004/11/2015-CX dated 21.07.2015 for Central Excise and Circular No.185/4/2015-Service Tax dated 30th June, 2015 for Service Tax. These instructions should be followed scrupulously. 6. The Jurisdictional Commissioner should examine the audit objection at the time of submitting the comments/Action Taken Note to the Ministry carefully in light of lapse on the par....