Licences of 56 Customs Brokers suspended since August 2019 till date: CBIC
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- Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs - CBIC has said that licences of 56 Customs Brokers including those of 37 from Delhi have been suspended since August 2019.
- CBIC informed that the Directorate General of Analytics and Risk Management had carried out data analytics of Customs Brokers linked with fraudulent and unscrupulous exporters.
- After the findings, the decision was taken to suspend the licences of these Customs Brokers.
- CBIC said, this exercise revealed that 62 Customs Brokers had handled more than 15,290 export consignments of 1,431 untraceable exporters.
Source: AIR
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Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs
- The Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) is the nodal national agency responsible for administering Customs, GST, Central Excise, Service Tax & Narcotics in India.
- The Customs & Central Excise department was established in the year 1855 by the then British Governor General of India, to administer customs laws in India and collection of import duties / land revenue.
- It is one of the oldest government departments of India.
- Chairperson: M. Ajit Kumar
- Minister responsible: Nirmala Sitharaman, Finance Minister of India
- Founded: 1 January 1964
- Headquarters: New Delhi