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AEPC Notifications
AEPC Bangalore has a New Address
The AEPC office located at No.10, Raheja Chambers, 12 Museum Road, Bangalore-01 is being shifted to
the new location at Yesvantpur, Bangalore. All the AEPC services like issuance of Certificate of Origin,
Import Certificate, Membership, EP activities etc., will be continued at the new location w.e.f. 01-12-2012.
The address of the new AEPC Office location is as given below:
APPAREL EXPORT PROMOTION COUNCIL
NO.17-G, 40TH MAIN ROAD,
2ND STAGE, INDUSTRIAL SUBURB,
YESVANTPUR, BANGALORE - 560 022.
Landline 080 41283827
Contact Numbers
Mr. R. Balaji – 9449826354
Mr. P. Dorababu - 9448311416
Functional control of Special Valuation Branches
Kind attention is invited to Board Circular No. 11/2001-Customs dated 23rd February 2001 issued from
Kind attention is invited to Board Circular No. 11/2001-Customs dated 23rd February 2001 issued from
F. No. 467/32/2000-Customs V, prescribing conditions and procedure regarding cases to be taken up for
investigation by Special Valuation Branches (SVB) and their manner of processing and disposal. Presently
SVBs are located in the Customs Commissionerates of Mumbai, New Delhi, Chennai, Kolkata and
Bangalore and are functioning under the administrative control of the respective Commissioners of Customs.
The functioning of SVBs was reviewed by the Board with a view to strengthen their working. It has been
decided to vest the Directorate General of Valuation (DGOV) with functional control over the SVBs.
Consequently, the presently existing SVB sections with their existing staff will henceforth function under the
supervisory control of the DGOV.
The Board has also decided that the officers posted in SVBs shall not be given any additional
responsibilities and they shall exclusively handle work relating to SVB investigations and related issues.
The office of the DGOV shall closely monitor the pendency of the SVBs, approve the initiation of SVB
inquiries, and supervise the investigations. Furthermore, the Board has desired that the DGOV continuously
endeavor for qualitative improvement of SVB investigations/orders. The entire notification can be seen on
the Ministry of Finance, Government of India web site.
Notification No. 47/2012 - Service Tax
In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section(1) read with sub-section (2) of section 94 of the Finance
Act 1994 (32 of 1994), the Central Government hereby makes the following rules further to amend the
Service Tax Rules, 1994, namely:-
1. (1) These rules may be called the Service Tax(Fourth Amendment) Rules, 2012.
(2) They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.
2. In the Service Tax Rules,1994, in rule 7, in sub-rule(2), the following proviso shall be inserted, namely:-
“Provided that the Form ‘ST-3’ required to be submitted by the 25th day of October, 2012 shall cover
the period between 1st April to 30th June, 2012 only.”
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