Rule 9A - Information relating to principal inputs - Cenvat Credit Rules, 2004

4 [ 9A. Annual return.- (1) A manufacturer of final products or provider of output services, shall submit to the Superintendent of Central Excise an annual return for each financial year, by the 30th day of November of the succeeding year, in the form as specified by a notification by the Board. (2) The provisions of rule 12 of the Central Excise Rules, 2002 , in so far as they relate to annual return shall, mutatis-mutandis, apply to the annual return required to be filed under this rule.] ************** Notes:- 1. Inserted, vide Notification No. 21/2010-Central Excise (N.T.), dated 18.05.2010 Further omitted vide notification no. 22/2011 CE(NT) dated 14-9-2011 , before it was read as, Provided further that where a manufacturer of final products has paid total duty of rupees ten lakh or more including the amount of duty paid by utilization of CENVAT credit in the preceding financial year, he shall file such declaration electronically 2. Inserted, vide Notification No. 21/2010-Central Excise (N.T.), dated 18.05.2010 Further omitted vide notification no. 22/2011 CE(NT) dated 14-9-2011 , before it was read as, Provided that where a manufacturer of final products has paid total duty of rupees ten lakh or more including the amount of duty paid by utilization of CENVAT credit in the preceding financial year, he shall file the said monthly return electronically: 3. Inserted vide notification no. 22/2011 CE(NT) dated 14-9-2011 4. Substituted vide Not. 13/2016 - Dated 1-3-2016, w.e.f. 1st April, 2016, before it was read as, 9A. - Information relating to principal inputs. - (1) A manufacturer of final products shall furnish to the Superintendent of Central Excise, annually by 30th April of each Financial Year, a declaration in the Form specified, by a notification, by the Board, in respect of each of the excisable goods manufactured or to be manufactured by him, the principal inputs and the quantity of such principal inputs required for use in the manufacture of unit quantity of such final products: Provided that for the year 2004-05, such information shall be furnished latest by 31st December, 2004. 1 [****] (2) If a manufacturer of final products intends to make any alteration in the information so furnished under sub-rule (1), he shall furnish information to the Superintendent of Central Excise together with the reasons for such alteration before the proposed change or within 15 days of such change in the Form specified by the Board under sub-rule (1). (3) A manufacturer of final products shall submit, within ten days from the close of each month, to the Superintendent of Central Excise, a monthly return in the Form specified, by a notification, by the Board, in respect of information regarding the receipt and consumption of each principal inputs with reference to the quantity of final products manufactured by him. 2 [***] (4) The Central Government may, by notification and subject to such conditions or limitations, as may be specified in such notification, specify manufacturers or class of manufacturers who may not be required to furnish declaration mentioned in sub-rule (1) or monthly return mentioned in sub-rule (3). 3 [(5) Every assessee shall file electronically, the declaration or the return, as the case may be, specified in this rule.] Explanation : For the purposes of this rule, principal inputs , means any input which is used in the manufacture of final products where the cost of such input constitutes not less than 10% of the total cost of raw-materials for the manufacture of unit quantity of a given final products.