The Visakhapatnam Customs & Central Tax Zone is headed by the Chief Commissioner of Customs and Central Tax, and comprises of 7 Commissionerates, viz. Visakhapatnam Custom House, Customs Commissionerate (Preventive), Vijayawada, Visakhapatnam CGST, Guntur CGST, Tirupati CGST, Guntur Appeals and Guntur Audit.

Earlier all the Commissionerates of erstwhile Hyderabad, Guntur and Vishakhapatnam Commissionerates were under a single Zone. The Guntur Collectorate was formed in the year 1972 and the Visakhapatnam Collectorate in 1990. A separate Commissionerate of Customs was formed at Visakhapatnam in 1997.

Consequent to cadre restructuring in 2002, two Zones were formed (i) Hyderabad Zone covering all the districts of Telangana region (ii) Visakhapatnam Zone covering remaining districts of Rayalaseema and Coastal districts of erstwhile Andhra Pradesh. Again, consequent upon the bifurcation of earlier state of Andhra Pradesh into Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, CBEC reviewed the requirement of manpower and restructured the cadres in the year 2014 by creating separate Commissionerates of Customs, Central Excise, Appeals and Audit under the Zone.

Earlier Chief Commissioners of Visakhapatnam Zone

The Visakhapatnam Central GST & Customs Zone is headed by the Chief Commissioner of CGST & Customs, and comprises of 3 Executive Commissionerates, viz. Visakhapatnam, Guntur, Tirupati, 2 Customs Commissionerates viz. Visakhapam Custom House, Customs Commissionerate (Preventive), Vijayawada and Guntur Appeals Commissionerate and Guntur Audit Commissionerate.

The details of jurisdiction of the Commissionerates under the Zone can be found below -

• GST Commissionerates
• Customs Commissionerates
• Audit Commissionerate
• Appeals Commissionerate

Commissionerate	Division	Range
Visakhapatnam CGST	Visakhapatnam North	Bheemunipatnam Madhurawada Muvvalavanipalem Maddilapalem Akayapalem Seethammapeta Dwarakanagar Srinagar Aseelmetta Siripuram
	Visakhapatnam Central	Maharanipeta Kurupam Market Suryabagh Daba Gardens Dondaparthy Kancharapalem Marripalem Sheelanagar Pendurthi VPT Range
	Visakhapatnam South	HPCL Malkapuram Gajuwaka Pedagantyada Kurmannapalem Visakhapatnam Steel Plant Parawada Anakapalli Payakarao Peta
	Vizianagaram	Palasa Srikakulam East Srikakulam West Bobbili Vizianagaram East Vizianagaram West Vizianagaram South
	Kakinada	Kakinada Port Kakinada Town Ramanayyapeta Turangi Tuni Samalkot Ramchandrapuram Amalapuram
	Rajamahendravaram	Danavaipeta Innispeta Rajahmahendravaram Rural Seethanagaram Kadiyam Mandapeta Ravulapalem
Guntur CGST	Eluru	Nidadavole Jangareddy Gudem Tanuku Bhimavaram Eluru
	Vijayawada	Auto Nagar Benz Circle Surya Rao Pet Samarangam Chowk Hanuman Junction Gudiwada Machilipatnam
	Amaravathi	Jaggaiyahpeta Ibrahimpatnam Bhavanipuram Indrakeeladri Krishna Lanka Amaravathi Capital City Tenali
	Guntur	Patnam Bazar Kothapet Brodipet Dachepalli Narasaraopet-I Narasaraopet-II
	Nellore	Nellore-1 Nellore-2 Nellore-3 Nellore-4 Naidupet Gudur Sullurpet Kavali On ole Chirala Markapur
Tirupati CGST	Tirupati	Chittoor 1 Chittoor 2 Madanapalle Puttur Sri City Sri Kalahasti Tirupati 1 Tirupati 2 Tirupati 3
	Anantapur	Anantapur-1 Anantapur-2 Anantapur-3 Tadipatri Hindupur-1 Hindupur-2
	Kurnool	Kurnool 1 Kurnool 2 Kurnool 3 Nandyal 1 Nandyal 2 Adoni 1
	Kadapa	Kadapa Proddatur 1 Proddatur 2 Yerraguntla
Visakhapatnam Custom House	Sea Ports	Visakhapatnam Port (33 Berths) Gangavaram Port (9 Berths)
	Air Ports	Visakhapatnam International Airport
	Container Freight Stattions (CFS)	Sravan Shipping Services Gateway Distripacks Ltd Central Warehousing Corporation (CWC) Vizag Profiles Logistics Pvt. Ltd. Multimodal Logistic Park (CONCOR MLP) Visakha Container Terminal CFS Sical SMART CFS Visakha CFS & Logistics Pvt. Ltd. Sravan Shipping Services Pvt Ltd Pedagantyada. Visahakatpam Port Logistics Park Ltd.(VPLPL).
	Bonded Warehouse	Public bonded warehouses- 28 Private bonded warehouses- 17 Special bonded warehouses- 1
	Special Economic Zones	VSEZ, Duwada AP IT SEZ, Madhurawada
Customs Commissionerate (Preventive), Vijayawada	Sea Ports	Kakinada Port Krishnapatnam Port
	Air Ports	Vijayawada International Airport
	Container Freight Stattions (CFS)	Gateway Distriparks Ltd. Seabird CFS
	Foreign Post Office	FPO, Vijayawada
	Inland Container Depot	ICD Marripalem ICD Reddypalem
Guntur Audit	Visakhapatnam Audit Circle	covers GST Divisions of- Visakhapatnam North Visakhapatnam Central Vizianagaram
	Kakinada Audit Circle	covers GST Divisions of- Visakhapatnam South Kakinada Rajahmendravaram Eluru
	Guntur Audit Circle	covers GST Divisions of- All Divisions of Guntur CGST Commissionerate except Nellore and Eluru.
	Nellore Audit Circle	covers GST Divisions of- Nellore Division of Guntur CGST Commissionerate.
	Tirupati Audit Circle	covers GST Divisions of- All Divisions of Tirupati CGST Commissionerate.

Officers in the Visakhapatnam Zone-Chief Commissioner's Office

Name (Shri./ Smt.)	Designation	Charges held
Sanjay Rathi, I.R.S.	Chief Commissioner	Zone
K. Prasanth Kumar, I.R.S.	Additional Commissioner	CCO
Gosu Ramesh, I.R.S.	Deputy Commissioner	Technical- I & II, Systems & Central Processing Cell Establishment Vigilance CIU Reviews & RTI PIMS & CRU
K.D.V.N. Kumar, I.R.S.	Assisstant Commissioner	Customs Legal & Audit CAT (Service matters) & Media Cell Administration & Infrastructure Official Language
V.G.K. Sarma	Superintendent	Technical-I (GST), Technical-II (Legacy)
G.V. Rao	Superintendent	Technical (Customs)
S. Manikanta	Superintendent	Central Intelligence Unit(CIU)
K. Vijayasri	Superintendent	Legal & Audit
K.V.V. Satyanarayana	Superintendent	Reviews, RTI, Inspection
B.H. Sastry Gadepalli	Superintendent	Systems & CPC
K.L.T. Sundari	Superintendent	Admin, Accounts, Infrastructure
N. Aparna	Superintendent	Establishment, E-Office
D. Srinivasa Rao	Superintendent	CAT Cell, Media Cell
K. Sadananda Kumar Swamy	Superintendent	Vigilance
Y. Srinivas	S.H.T.	Official Language
J. Sunita	Sr. P.S. to CC	Sr. P.S. to CC