Customs, Excise Chiefs To Convey Meet On July 24

New Delhi: The Union Finance Minister, Mr P. Chidambaram, will open the All-India annual conference of the chief commissioners and director-generals of Customs and Central Excise here on July 24. The two-day conference will start with performance appraisal of the Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC) in areas such as revenue, trade facilitation, enforcement etc. There would also be some detailed discussions on status of automation initiatives of CBEC. Other issues such as measures to improve compliance levels in indirect taxation, dispute resolution, goods and services tax and emerging challenges before customs would also be discussed.