Goa Excise

Permits for local sale of Spirits and IMFL

Only a valid licence holder of Wholesale of Spirits can sale Spirits locally to Industrial Units or licensed vendors in the State of Goa and A valid licence holder for manufacture of IMFL can sell to the dealer possessing Wholesale licence only. A wholesaler in turn can sell to the valid licence holder of Retail Sale of IMFL in Packed bottles and Consumption in the State of Goa.

Sr.No.	Particulars	Details
1	Competent Authority	Department of Excise, Government of Goa
2	URL/s	Excise Department: https://excise.goa.gov.in/ Goaonline:https://goaonline.gov.in GEMS Portal: https://excise.goa.gov.in/edealer/HomePage.aspx
3	Type of service	Operations
4	Act / Rule	Goa Excise Duty Act 1964 and Rules
5	Service mode	Online through Goa Online / GEMS Portal
6	Online mode notification	Pls see the section below
7	Timeline for approval	Pls see the timeline section below
8	Validity of approval	From 9:00 am to 08:00 pm.
9	Renewal/Extension	Not Applicable
10	Provision of Deemed Approval	Not Applicable
11	Auto Renewal	Not Applicable
11	Auto Renewal – URL	Not Applicable

Step by Step Procedure for approval with timeline

Sr.No.	Action by User Type	Stages/Steps	Time taken for approval
1		Logs in to the GEMS Portal with OTP
2		Navigates to permits and select the service
3		Applicant Fills the online Application Form

4		Local permit of Spirit:- The Submitted application is scrutinized by the Dealing Hand and submitted to the incharge of the Unit, the Unit incharge then inspects the application and issues challan for the payment of prescribed fees. The incharge then submits the application online to the Head office for further necessary action. The Dealing hand at Head office then further scrutinize the application and forward to the concern superintendent for verification, the Superintendent then verifies and Grants the application.	24 hours
5	Department	Local Permit for IMFL:- The Submitted application is scrutinized by the Dealing Hand and submitted to the incharge of the Unit, the Unit incharge then inspects the application and issues challan for the payment of prescribed fees. After payment, the Unit incharge Grants and signs digitally with validity.	24 hours
6	GEMS Portal	User / Investor logs in to know the status of the application from GEMS portal	Real time
7	Department	The digitally signed licence copy is generated by the Excise Inspector in Form E-7B and issued to the User/Investor	real Time

The above can be seen through this link: Sr. II No. 31 Extraordinary No. 3 (LOW RESO) (goa.gov.in)

Checklist of documents: Following documents are required to avail the license

#	Document	Mandatory
	Permit

1	Application in Form E-1.	Mandatory
2	Paid challan	Mandatory

The above can be seen through this link:
https://excise.goa.gov.in/retail_sale_packed_bottles.aspx
https://excise.goa.gov.in/retail_sale_for_consumption.aspx

The fee applicable is given below

The timeline for approval of License for local sale, Import and export permit of Spirit and Indian-made foreign liquor (IMFL)is given below:

There is no timeline issued for this service

Ref: Sr. II No. 31 Extraordinary No. 3 (LOW RESO) (goa.gov.in)

Risk-based classification

There is no risk-based classification for this service.

Service Mode: The mandate stating the use of online application for the Licence for Local Sale is given below:

The circular issued by the Goa Investment Promotion and Facilitation Board (Goa-IPB) is given below:

URL: Notification_2.PDF (goaonline.gov.in)

Additional Remarks: The procedural steps indicated above is uniform for all types of establishments, irrespective of risk category, size of firm, business locate on or type of investor (Foreign or Domestic).

Department of Excise GOVERNMENT OF GOA