ICEGATE

ICEGATE stands for Indian Customs Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) or Electronic Commerce (EC) Gateway. ICE GATE is a government portal that provides electronic filing services for trading partners.

The following topics have been covered in this article:

1. ICEGATE (Vision & Mission)

Vision

The vision of ICEGATE is to provide an efficient medium to collect indirect taxes and administer cross-border control to increase voluntary compliance through ICEGATE payment.

Mission

The mission of ICEGATE is to flawlessly implement and formulate laws and procedures of Customs, Central Excise, and Service Tax. Other missions of ICEGATE be status are:

1. Revenues realization fairly and efficiently.
2. Facilitating Trade industry
3. Administration facility to the economic, taxation and trade policies of the government.
4. Controlling cross border movement of goods, services, and Intellectual Property.
5. Enhancing competitiveness among Indian businesses.
6. Preventing evasion of Revenue, social Menace and commercial frauds

3. Salient features of ICES

Salient features of ICES are

1. Automation of customs clearance system to make customs clearance functioning smooth and transparent with the help of ICE GATE bill of entry.
2. Real-Time electronic interfacing with import and export regulatory agencies through ICEGATE.
3. Custom clearance using real-time Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) through ICEGATE duty payment.

4. EDI Customs Trading Partners

5. Functions of ICEGATE

Here is the list of functions of ICEGATE

1. Customs and Central Excise duties and Service Tax Levy and collection
2. Manufacturing excisable goods and service providers’ unit registration and monitoring
3. Scrutiny of returns filed and declaration received with the department
4. Preventing and fighting unfair practices such as evasion of customs duties and taxes
5. Export Promotion Measures
6. Border Control Implementation on goods and Conveyances
7. Clearance, as well as, the examination of imported and exported goods
8. Clearance of International baggage and passenger
9. Dispute Resolution via Administrative and Legal Measures
10. Audit Assessments to ensure tax compliance
11. Refund, Rebate and Drawback Sanctioning
12. Revenue Arrears