Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) has issued Circular No. 1070/3/2019-CX dated 24th June, 2019 to prescribe the revised procedure for making e-payment of Central Excise and Service Tax arrears under the new CBIC-GST Integrated portal.
Revised Procedure for making e-payment has been prescribed below:
- Taxpayer shall now access the CBIC – GST portal i.e. http://cbec-gst.gov.in/ and login using the existing user id and password.
- Taxpayers shall select – “Services” – > “E-Payments” in menu and will get the option to “Create Challan” and “Track Challan” status under “E-payments”
- On click of “Create Challan” – the system will display new screen where tax payer can either select “Central Excise Registration Number” or “Service Tax Registration Number”
- The details of the Taxpayer would then be displayed in terms of CE/ST Registration number, Email address , mobile number , tax payer name and address with CDR details.
- Taxpayer will then have to select account heads from drop-down option with a cap of maximum of six account heads.
- Taxpayer then enters amount corresponding to each account head and total is auto calculated in the same screen.
- Tax payer will have the option of editing or generating Challan. If “Edit” is selected, Taxpayer would be directed to the previous screen and he/she can make corrections.
- Taxpayer will verify the information by a fully populated Challan with total Challan amount in words and then clicks on “Generate Challan”.
- On selecting “Generate Challan” system will process the information and displays the generated Challan Temporary Identification Number (CTIN) which will be valid only for 15 days.
- Screen will show confirmation message “Challan created successfully” and a new button “Make Payment” will be displayed.
- On click of Make Payment, taxpayer will be re-directed to ICEGATE portal
- List of Unpaid Challan of Taxpayer will be displayed in ICEGATE portal in next tab of browser. Taxpayer can select one or multiple unpaid Challans to make payment.
- Taxpayer clicks on ‘Pay’ and then the payment option will be displayed i.e. NEFT /RTGS
- On selection of any of the option, system will generate a printable Challan (mandate form) against which the payment can be made at the bank.
- Taxpayer will initiate the NEFT/RTGS transaction either online or take a print out of the mandate from and present it at any authorized bank branch.
- If payment is initiated online, confirmation of Payment message will be displayed in ICEGATE portal and then system will automatically route the taxpayer to CBIC-GST application page.
For further details please refer the attached document.
Source: Central Board of Indirect Taxes & Customs