ACE Troubles
THE woes of those filing central Excise and Service Tax returns and applications electronically are many. Harried assessees have told us about their frustrating experiences.
An assessee informs us, “If I provide more than one service, I am paying two GAR-7 challans or even if I am single service provider and pay twice service tax i.e. two GAR-7 challans in 1 month and filling online Service tax return ,It is not accepting; it says challan details are wrong and not going ahead.
We are told this problem has been solved. All that is required is to put a comma after one GAR7 number and then another comma after the second GAR7 and so on. Simple? Try it; it may even work!
Another asssessee writes in,
“Central Excise and Service Tax department has been automated and applications for registrations are being accepted online only. once an application for registration is made online and submitted to the system, Registration number is automatically generated. Registration is formally generated and granted later on.This generated number does not change.Assessee can carry on his or her business without waiting for formal registration to be granted.
Now the banks are not accepting payments unless the assessee name appears in the NSDL data base.NSDL updates its database from ACES data base.However assessee name is not transferred to NSDL database unless registration is ISSUED by the jurisdictional Authorities(REFER ACES website R.B.I circular).In view of banks not accepting payments assessee has to approach authorities and request for grant of registration.Thus the claim that registration is deemed to be granted if not granted within 7 days is nullified with this RBI circular.I would like to request you to highlight this issue through your portal.”
Will ACES look up?