Instructions regarding Detailed Scrutiny of Central Excise Returns-reg.

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..... Principal Chief Commissioners/ Chief Commissioners of Central Excise and Service Tax (All) Sub: Instructions regarding Detailed Scrutiny of Central Excise Returns-reg. Madam/ Sir, In view of the self-assessment procedure wherein the assessee himself assesses the duty liability, the responsibility of the departmental officers is to scrutinise the assessment made for verification of its correctne .....

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..... the total returns received in a month shall be mandatorily performed by the proper officer. ii) Selection of assessees by the Commissionerates for detailed scrutiny shall be based on Risk score and procedure for using it, as forwarded by DG (Audit) vide letter F. No. 381/20/2015 dated 18.05.2015. Chief Commissioners and Commissioners shall also have powers to manually select returns for detailed .....

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..... d scrutiny of Central Excise returns by proper officer, the documents and records of assessees, where necessary, may be called for verification by proper officer. v) In Composite Ranges where there are both Central Excise and Service Tax assessees, the total number of Central Excise and Service Tax returns to be taken up for detailed scrutiny shall be same as prescribed at para (i) above. The rat .....

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