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..... Excise duty on Capital Goods
Query (Issue) Started By: - RAM SHARMA Dated:- 20-9-2014 Last Reply Date:- 22-9-2014 Central Excise
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Dear Experts,We have purchased capital goods before 10 years and availed cenvat credit on that capital goods. Now we want to remove as such this capital goods. Whether we will charge excise duty on this capital goods ?Thanks Repl .....

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..... y By Rajagopalan Ranganathan: The Reply: Dear Shri. Ram Sharma, Sub-rule (5 A) of Rule 3 of CENVAT Credit Rules, 2004 gives the solution to your problem which is reproduced below; - [(5A) (a) If the capital goods, on which CENVAT credit has been taken, are removed after being used, the manufacturer or provider of output services shall pay an amount equal to the CENVAT Credit taken on the said c .....

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..... apital goods reduced by the percentage points calculated by straight line method as specified below for each quarter of a year or part thereof from the date of taking the CENVAT Credit, namely:- (i) for computers and computer peripherals: for each quarter in the first year @ 10% for each quarter in the second year @ 8% for each quarter in the third year @ 5% for each quarter in the fourth and .....

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..... fifth year @ 1% (ii) for capital goods, other than computers and computer peripherals @ 2.5% for each quarter: Provided that if the amount so calculated is less than the amount equal to the duty leviable on transaction value, the amount to be paid shall be equal to the duty leviable on transaction value. (b) If the capital goods are cleared as waste and scrap, the manufacturer shall pay an amo .....

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..... unt equal to the duty leviable on transaction value.] If you clear the capital goods after use for 10 years as scrap Rule 3 (5 A) (b) is applicable since as per the above formula after 10 years the credit available will be Nil. Reply By MUKUND THAKKAR: The Reply: Dear sharma, you should have to pay excise duty as per cenvat rules 3(5) calculate the duty on basis of table, and compare with your .....

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..... transaction value duty.please pay which is higher. Reply By Pradeep Khatri: The Reply: Dear Ram, You would have to pay the duty either deduction of 2.5% per quarter or on the transaction value whichever is higher. Regards YAGAY and SUN (Management and Indirect Tax Consultants) Reply By RAM SHARMA: The Reply: Dear Sir,If we have not availed cenvat credit on that capital goods then what .....

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..... will be the treatment of that capital goods.Thanks&Regards Reply By Pradeep Khatri: The Reply: Dear Ram, No Gain, No Pain Just reversed the famous saying (Originally, it is No Pain, No Gain) for the purpose of replying to your query. Now, coming back to the query, if you have not availed the CENVAT credit (i.e. no Gain), then, there is no need to reverse the CENVAT credit (i.e. no pain). Howeve .....

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..... r, being pro-revenue , Department may ask to pay duty/amount on the transaction value of the capital goods. But the settled legal position is that if CENVAT credit is not availed then no reversal, no duty on transaction value on the Capital goods but it is also subject to production of documentary evidence that no CENVAT credit was availed. Hope you will also smile little bit, after understanding .....

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..... the level of my sense of humor. Regards, Pradeep Khatri YAGAY and SUN (Management and Indirect Tax Consultants) Reply By RAM SHARMA: The Reply: Many Many Thanks
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