The Aurangabad Commissionerate office is situated at Town Centre, N-5, CIDCO, Aurangabad in the Government building. The Aurangabad Commissionerate, since it was carved out of jurisdiction of Pune commissionerate in 1983, but started physical functioning in 1984, has evolved and metamorphosed over the time. The commissionerate had total C. Excise revenue of Rs. 180 crores in 1983-84. Whereas now as per 2007-08 the total excise revenue is increased to Rs. 829 crores.

The Aurangabad commissionerate, when it formed was consisting of Aurangabad, Ahmadnagar, Jalna, Nanded, Beed, Hingoli, Parbhani, Latur, Osmanabad, Solapur, Nashik, Dhule and Jalgaon Districts of Maharashtra. Further, Solapur district was separated and included in Pune-III Commissionerate in 1996, Nashik Commissionerate was formed by separating Nashik, Dhule, Jalgon and Nandurbar district in 2002.