CHEMEXCIL
Basic Chemicals, Cosmetics & Dyes Export Promotion Council
(Set-up by Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Govt of India)

Jhansi Castle, 4th floor, 7-Cooperage Road,   Mumbai – 400 001.
Tel  :  91-22-22021288, 22021330 Fax : 91-22-22026684.
E-mail : info@chemexcil.gov.in 
Website : http://www.chemexcil.gov.in

EPC/LIC/CBIC                                                                                                   27/12/2019

TO

ALL THE MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL

CBIC

Dear Members,

This is in continuation of our mailer dated 07/11/2019 informing you that  Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC)  has issued  Circular No. 37/2019 dated, 5th November 2019  regarding Generation and quoting of Document Identification Number (DIN) on any communication issued by the officers of the CBIC to tax payers and other concerned persons  on or after the 8th Nov 2019.

As per the aforementioned Circular, CBIC had specified that the DIN monitoring system would be used for incorporating a DIN on search authorizations, summons, arrest memos, inspection notices etc. to begin with. Further, a facility was provided to enable the recipient of these documents/communications to easily verify their genuineness by confirming the DIN on-line at gov.in.

In continuation of the same, CBIC has now  issued Circular   No.128/47/2019-GST  dated 23rd Dec 2019 whereby its  directed that electronic generation and quoting of Document Identification Number (DIN) shall be done in respect of all communications (including e-mails) sent to tax payers and other concerned persons by any office of the Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) across the country. In this regard it is instructed that communications such as SCN, PH memo and O-I-O will also require quoting of DIN.

Accordingly, the online digital platform/facility already available on the DDM’s online portal ‘gov.in’ for electronic generation of DIN has been suitably enhanced to enable electronic generation of DIN in respect of all forms of communication (including e-mails) sent to tax payers and other concerned persons. On the one hand electronic generation of DIN would create a digital directory for maintaining a proper audit trail of communications sent to tax payers and other concerned persons and on the other hand, it would provide the recipient of such communication a digital facility to ascertain the genuineness of the communication.  

CBIC  has once again directed that any specified communication which does not bear the electronically generated DIN and is not covered by the exceptions mentioned in paragraph 4 of Circular No. 37/2019 dated 05.11.2019, shall be treated as invalid and shall be deemed to have never been issued provided the omission is not regularized as per the procedure stated in the  said circular.

Members are requested to take note of the above measure and check,   if needed.  The  circulars are  available for reference using below links-

http://cbic.gov.in/htdocs-cbec/gst/circular-cgst-128.pdf
http://cbic.gov.in/htdocs-cbec/customs/cs-circulars/cs-circulars-2019/Circular-No-37-2019.pdf

Thanking you,

Yours Faithfully,

(S. G. Bharadi)
Executive Director