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Clarification regarding amendment in Special Economic Zone Rules, 2006 in Rule 47, after sub-rule (4) dated 05.08.2016 – reg.
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....ification regarding amendments made in the Special Economic Zone Rules, 2006 by way of inserting a new Rule 47 (5) brought vide Department of Commerce (DoC) Notification No. GSR 772(E) dated 05.08.2016 wherein functional operations like Refund, Demand, Adjudication, Review and Appeal are to be made by jurisdictional Customs and Central Excise authorities in accordance with the relevant provisions contained in the Customs Act, 1962 & Central Excise Act, 1994 and the Finance Act, 1994. 2. Doubts have been raised regarding operationalization of these functions, appropriate authority and time limitation in respect of these functional operations, especially refund claims filed prior to the date of coming into effect of the said notification, i.....
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....ressed to the Deputy Commissioner/ Assistant Commissioner of policy or technical, as it may be called, in the Office of Jurisdictional Commissioner of Customs, Central Excise, Service Tax or GST as the case may be. ii. If required, DC/AC (Policy/ Technical or as they may be called in the GST regime) would seek comments from the office of the concerned Development Commissioner on admissibility, limitation including aspects of unjust enrichment of this refund claim under Customs law. iii. The office of the Development Commissioner must provide comments within a maximum period of 2 weeks from the date on which such communication is received from the office of the DC/ AC (Policy/ Technical). iv. DC/ AC (Policy/ Technical) will issue a Speaki....
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....tion is prospective in nature. 4 Review & Appeal Same as provided under the Customs, Central Excise, Service Tax or the GST laws and rules made there under. In case, a demand gets confirmed, the realization there of must be initiated by the jurisdictional Customs/ Central Excise/ Service Tax/ GST authority. However, the office of the Development Commissioner will assist the Customs authority in such realization as they have the BLUT (Bond cum Letter of Undertaking) signed by the unit/ developer and they are administratively under their jurisdiction. 3.3 The question now arises as to how the old cases of refund pending as on the date of the coming into effect of this notification will be sanctioned/ entertained by the Customs, Central Ex....