TIOL-DDT 1233 · Tuesday, 10 November 2009 · story 1 of 5

RS inaugurates e-Pay and Accounts Office

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PV Bhide, the Revenue Secretary has inaugurated e-Pay and Accounts Offices for Central Excise and Service Tax, COMPACT (Revact) & P-CBEC softwares and website of Pr. CCA, CBEC.

The Principal Chief Controller of Accounts already has a website - http://pccacbec.nic.in/ . Then what has the Revenue secretary newly inaugurated? You go to the website, it is totally silent on the Revenue secretary or his inauguration! Apparently all the officers were busy with the inaugural function that they did not bother to update their website.

The Principal Chief Controller is the Authority to give us the Accounting Codes for the various taxes and duties we are required to pay. So far they have not announced the Accounting Codes for the new services introduced in this year's Finance Act. If they can do this small job which they should have done a couple of months ago, we will all be grateful to the honourable Principal Chief Controller of Accounts! Pray, what prevents you from announcing those numbers?