ACES Site will be Fully Disabled from 25 May 2019 for Excise
and Service Tax Payment
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New website www.cbic-gst.gov.in and
https://appstore.cbec.gov.in will be Operational
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CBIC Detailed Procedure for Access New website
[Circular No. 1069/2/2019 /2019 CX dated 08
May 2019]
Subject:
Revised Procedure for electronic filing of Central Excise returns and for
electronic payment of Excise duty and Service tax arrears under the new portal
www.cbic-gst.gov.in.
Attention is invited to the Circular
No. 956/17/2011-C.Ex dated 28.9.2011 issued by the Board with regard to the procedure for electronic filing
of CE & ST Returns and for electronic payment of Excise Duty and Service
Tax.
2. Consequent to the Roll out of GST w.e.f. 1.7.2017, GST tax payers
are required to transact through the Common Portal (www.gst.gov.in). The
taxpayers who deal with Goods attracting levy of Central Excise even after
1.7.2017, continue to access www.aces.gov.in to register, file returns, file
refund applications as well as make payments. Service Tax taxpayers also access
www.aces.gov.in, to pay arrears as well to file ST-3 returns late (with applicable penalty/interest
etc.).
3. In order to integrate the existing
ACES functionalities of CE & ST into CBIC-ACES-GST Backend Application and
migrate the legacy data from the ACES Application to the CBIC-ACES-GST Backend
Application. DG, Systems has completed all preparatory activities for seamless
integration.
4. The actual migration of Data from
ACES Application to CBIC-ACES-GST Application is proposed to commence from
02.05.2019 and expected to be completed on 05.2019.
During the transition period of Data Migration, the ACES Application Menus will be disabled. As a result, both the taxpayers as well as
the Departmental Officers will not be able to do any transactions in the ACES
Application during the transition period (02.05.2019 to 25.05.2019). Further,
while the ACES Application will be completely shut down from 02.05.2019 to
05.05.2019, the Application will be up with “View Only” facility for tax payers and Tax officers from 06.05.2019.1t may be
noted that Taxpayers can continue to make Payments through E-payment Menu or
directly on EASIEST Portal (https://cbec-easiest.gov.in) during the migration
period.
5. On completion of the integration
& migration as above, the Application will be available for Taxpayers and
Tax officers respectively at www.cbic-gst.gov.in and
https://appstore.cbec.gov.in from 26.05.2019 onwards.
(i) Existing
taxpayers
To access the application, post
migration, the existing taxpayers under Central Excise and Service Tax, need go
to the new portal namely, www.cbic-gst.gov.in.In the “Taxpayer Login”, need to
provide existing user id and password credentials (used by them to login to
ACES portal). On successful authentication, the user will be
mandated to change the password. Thereafter, the taxpayers can login to
the integrated system,(i.e.www.cbic-gst.gov.in) with user id and the new
password to do the transactions like Amendments to Registration, filing of
returns, filing of refund claims etc. as carried out earlier.
(ii). New taxpayers
New taxpayers need to register with the
portal www.cbic-gst.gov.in at first instance as detailed below:
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On click of “New
User” the taxpayer need to provide information like “Name as mentioned in PAN”,
PAN, Mobile Number, Email Address and select the STATE from LOV and Captcha.
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On submission, OTP
will be sent to the given mobile number.
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On providing the
OTP, Temporary Reference Number (TRN) will be generated and
sent to both mobile/E-mail.
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User need to use
TRN Login and provide TRN & captcha and Click on Generate OTP.
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On providing OTP,
the user is allowed to login and user chooses to fill
A-1 / A3 registration form based on the business involved in.
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On successful
submission of Registration form, Application Reference Number (ARN) is generated and communicated to the user.
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The Registration
form will be forwarded to AC/DC of the selected
Division.
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On approval of the
A-1 form, Registration Number along with temporary password will
be communicated to user through e-mail / SMS.
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The Registration
Number will be the user id for the taxpayer.
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On first login
using the temporary password, system will prompt the user to
mandatorily change the password.
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Thereafter the
taxpayer can commence the required transactions online.
(iii) As regards the
departmental officers, currently they access the departmental portal
(https://appstore.cbec.gov.in) through AIOs and use SSO ID to log in to the
CBIC-ACES-GST Backend Application. The Tax officer clicks on “GST” icon to view
and process the transactions initiated by the GST Taxpayers and clicks on
“Central Excise” or “Service Tax” to view and process transactions initiated by
CE or ST taxpayers respectively.
(iv) Post Integration, the
https://appstore.cbec.gov.inwill have “ACES-GST” icon. The Departmental
Officers can click on this ACES-GST icon to view and process the transactions
initiated by GST/ CE/ ST Taxpayers under the integrated Application.
(v) As an interim
measure, Central Excise / Service Tax icons will continue for some time under
READ ONLY Mode for reference purpose.
6. A detailed advisory in this regard will be shared shortly by DGS, Chennai.
7. As a sizable number of taxpayers
would be required to file Central Excise and Service Tax return electronically,
it is requested that the trade and industry may be provided all assistance so as to help them in adopting the new procedure.
8. Assessee
and the Departmental Officer can access the National Toll free No. 1800 1200
232 any time for any assistance. Besides, e-mails can be sent to
cbecmitra.helpdesk@icegate.qov.in or web-ticketing
available under HELP tab on www.cbic-gst.gov.in. All the call/e-mails will be issued a unique ticket number, which will be
attended to by the Service Desk agents for appropriate response.
9. Field formations and
trade/industry/service provider may also be informed
suitably.
F. No. 267/58/2019/CX-8