A. Career as a tax administrator:

Smt. Sungita Sharma belongs to the 1986 Batch of IRS (Customs & Indirect Taxes). She was selected by ACC to the post of Special Secretary and Member in the Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) from August 2020 to January 2023, when she retired from government service, having managed the Administration and HR work of CBIC for 2 ½ years.

From April 2018 to July 2020, in the capacity of Principal Chief Commissioner and Chief Commissioner, she headed two of the leading Central GST zones-Delhi and Mumbai. Concurrently with her Mumbai CGST charge, she held the charge of Director General, Sub-National Unit (West) of the Directorate-General of GST Intelligence (DGGI) from January 2019 to January 2020. She was assigned additional charge of CGST Chennai, CGST and Customs Pune and Mumbai Airport Customs zones for short periods.

As Principal Commissioner and Commissioner of Central Excise and Service Tax, she administered the tax jurisdiction of Pune City and Baramati, Solapur, and Ranjangaon districts of Maharashtra from 2012 to 2016. She was also in-charge of the Vigilance and anti-corruption Unit of DGoV, CBIC in Mumbai from July 2016 to March 2018.

Her middle-level operational experience in 1999-2001 was in the tax jurisdiction in Delhi and Haryana states. From 2002 to 2006, she handled tax-related litigation in the Supreme Court for the Central Board of Excise and Customs. She also had a five-year Central tenure in the Ministry of Defence.

After completing her two-year probation level training at LBSNAA, Mussoorie and NACIN, New Delhi, she worked from 1988 to 1998 in Delhi Custom House for four years, Mumbai and Meerut Central Excise for 3 years, and for 3 years as Under Secretary in CBEC.

B. Work Studies assigned by CBIC:

Over and above her field assignments, she has chaired several Committees for CBIC:

In June 2017 she has co-chaired the Sectoral Working Group on GST for Travel and Tourism, along with Shri. Raghavendra Singh, presently Chief Secretary Madhya Pradesh, and then the State Tax Commissioner of MP. Their report was submitted to the GST Council Secretariat and is an exhaustive analysis of the likely impact of GST in this area, with recommendations as to how to guide the sector into compliance. In the pre-GST regime, she has chaired two Committees for her department:

for identifying risk parameters for assessment of Service Tax returns in 2015,

for standardizing business processes in Service tax and Central Excise in 2016.

She has been part of an e-governance project initiated by the Central Board of Excise & Customs on grievance-redressal, launched in December 1999 by Shri. N. Vitthal, the then Central Vigilance Commissioner.

She has also worked in 2000 on a project to re-structure the cadres of Customs & Central Excise Department in line with emerging areas of work in taxation of the service sector, growing trend towards tax litigation in the corporate sector, as well as challenges and opportunities thrown up by emerging software technology.

C. Training and learning profile:

She has travelled extensively in various capacities for training and as a resource person for CBIC:

She was CBIC’s representative in 2018 to the 17th Meeting of the Integrity Sub-Committee, at WCO Headquarters at Brussels.

Along with four of her colleagues she was part of a study tour organized by EU CITD on the EU Benchmark of OSPCA implementing strategy in the Netherlands in 2015.

Her training profile includes a senior level management training in 2014 at Indian School of Business, Hyderabad and Maxwell School of Business, Syracuse University, Canada.

In 2013 she was the CBIC delegate to a workshop organized by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Global Intellectual Property Academy in collaboration US Customs & Border Protection and the ASEAN Secretariat on effective practices in transnational cooperation in the border enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights along with delegates from ASEAN nations, China and the private sector at Bangkok.

While on deputation with DoPT, she has undertaken a short duration course on AntiCorruption at the Australian University, Canberra and Sydney in October 2007, and a yearlong training in 2010 on strategic issues for senior level management at the National Defence College with officers of the Indian Army, Navy and Air Force, as also foreign participants from the armies of USA, UK, Sri Lanka, Brazil, Mexico, Malaysia, Japan. She has travelled to Ghana and Netherlands to study their political and economic models for development, and to Vietnam to appreciate India’s strategic neighbourhood.

D. For a distinguished record of service, on the occasion of Republic Day 2006, she has been honoured by her department with the Presidential Award for Appreciation.