Audit Reports

We conducted a performance audit in 40 selected Commissionerates, including examination of records relating to 239 assessees manufacturing automobiles or parts thereof, to seek assurance that the indirect tax administration is adequately placed to...

Prosecution is the commencement of a criminal proceeding, where the Government exhibits before a Court of Law the formal charges against a person accused of an offense and seeks to impose on such person a suitable punishment and penalty. Thus, in...

A Special Economic Zone is a geographical region within a Nation-State in which a distinct legal frame work provides for more liberal economic policies and governance arrangements than prevail in the country at large. The geographical areas thus...

The Indian Customs Electronic Data Interchange System (ICES) was developed as the core ICT system through which import and export documents {Bills of Entry, Shipping Bills, Import General Manifests (IGMs) and Export General Manifests (EGMs)} were to ...

India's exports have picked up in the recent years which rose by 15 per cent (CAGR) against global export growth of 5 per cent, with our share in global exports moving up from around 0.5 per cent in 1992 to 1.4 per cent in 2013. However, imports...

The Report has a total revenue implication of RS 31.48 crore covering 31 paragraphs. We had issued another 90 paragraphs involving money value of RS 30.80 crore on which rectificatory action was taken by the Department/Ministry in the form of...

This Report contains 239 audit observations pertaining to Central Excise duties and Service Tax, having a total revenue implication totalling RS 569.55 crore. The Ministry/department had, till May 2013, accepted audit observations involving revenue...

The department does not have a mechanism to arrive at a reliable estimate of value of taxable services imported. The department has however, initiated steps (since November 2011) to utilise primary data available with authorised dealers; the process ...

This report contains results of two performance audits - one on 'Deemed Export Drawback Scheme' and another on 'Reimbursement of Central Sales Tax (CST) to EOU7STP1 2/EHTP3 units'. Both the export promotion measures emanate from the Chapters Eight...

This Report contains 24 paragraphs with a revenue implication of RS 49.48 crore, out of which RS 3.21 crore has been recovered. We had also issued another 175 paragraphs involving money value of RS 155.26 crore to the Commissionerate/Ministry on...