OFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONER OF SERVICE TAX

6^th Floor, MHU COMPLEX, 692, ANNA SALAI, NANDANAM, CHENNAI 600035

Trade Notice No. 09/2008. Dated: 8/4/08

Sub: Constitution of Regional Advisory Committee for the year

2008,2009 for Service Tax Commissionerate, Chennai.

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A Regional Advisory Committee for Service Tax Commissionerate, Chennai has been constituted for the year 2008 and 2009. Commissioner of Service Tax, Chennai Service Tax Commissionerate is the Ex-Officio Chairman. The members of the Committee are the following.

Sr. No.	Name of nominee s/shri	Sponsoring Association / Chamber / Organization	Post held in Association / Chamber / Organization
1	S. Vijaikumar Bafna	Hindustan Chamber of Commerce	President
2	P. R. Sudhakar	The Madras Chamber of Commerce & Industry (MCCI)	Co-Chairman, Expert Committee on VAT, MCCI
3	CA.Rajendra Kumar.P	Southern India Regional Council (SIRC) of The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICWAI)	Chairman of SIRC of ICAI
4	R.Sridharan	Southern India Regional Council of The Institute of Company Secretaries of India	Council Member, The ICSI and Ex-officio Member.SIRC
5	P. Mukundan	Federation of Associations of Small Industries of India (FASII)	Chairman – Policy and Programme Committee FASII.
6	N.K. Nathan	Ambattur Industrial Estate Manufacturers’ Association	Executive Committee Member
7	John Vershese	The Institute of Cost &Works Accountants of India, Soutern Indian Regional Council	Practicing Cost Accountant and Member
8	Harish L. Mehta	Southern India Rajasthan Chamber of Commerce and Inds.	Past Vice President of the Chamber
9	G.R. Seethabathy	Chennai Custom House Agents Association	Executive Committee Member
10	L. Krishnan	The Air Cargo Agents Association of India	Vice President
11	S. Srinivasan	All India Manufacturers Organisation, Chennai	Secretary, AIMO
12	N. Ramaswamy	Andhra Chamber of Commerce	Member of the Chamber

2. The life period of the Committee is two year viz. 2008,2009.

3. The Committee will meet once in three months or as often as the Chairman may decide. The meetings will generally be held at the office of the Commissioner of Service Tax Chennai at 692, MHU Complex, Anna Salai, Nandanam, Chennai-600035, unless intimated otherwise.

4. Members will be informed in advance about the date and the venue of each meeting. They are requested to send their points for discussion within the stipulated time so that these points could be included in the agenda for discussion in the meeting.

5. The functions of the Regional Advisory Committee will be purely advisory in nature and the Committees are intended for resolving procedural difficulties of general nature. The Committee may, however, discuss any matter including policy behind individual cases, but exclude individual cases themselves.

6. No persons other than nominated members can attend the meeting. However, under exceptional circumstances, the member can authorise a person on his behalf to attend the meeting. Any member who absents himself for three consecutive meetings without adequate reasons will be deemed to have been withdrawn from the Committee and his place will be filled up by fresh nomination.

7. Service Tax assesses of this Commissionerate who desire to raise points on Service Tax matters for discussion may sponsor their points through any of the above members of the Committee or by writing directly to the Chairman, of the Committee.

8. All the Trade Associations are requested to bring the contents of the Trade Notice to the attention of their members in particular, and the Trade and all others concerned in general.

(Issued in File C.No.IV/16/15/06-STC)

(P.K.JAIN)

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