Senior bureaucrat Pranab Kumar Das has been appointed as chairman of the Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC), the apex policy-making body for indirect taxes.
Das, special secretary and member (customs) at CBIC, will succeed S Ramesh. Das, a 1983-batch IRS officer of Customs and Central Excise Cadre was appointed as a member in the Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC) in 2017.
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Static/Current Takeaways Important For IBPS Clerk Mains Exam 2018:
- CBIC is a part of the Department of Revenue under the Ministry of Finance, Government of India.
