PENALTY AND INTEREST ON REVERSAL OF CENVAT CREDIT WRONGLY AVAILED.

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..... GOOD EVENING RESPECTED EXPERTS. SIR, Whether a assessee who has reversed wrongly availed cenvat credit on own is liable to penalty and interest in the following situations:- 1. Date of taking credit is January 10, 2012 and date of reversal is December 16, 2014. But the assesse has not utilized the wrongly availed cenvat. 2. Date of availment is June 10,2012 and date of reversal is December 1 .....

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..... 6 2014. The assesse has not utilized the wrongly availed cenvat. What will happen had the assesse utilized the wrongly availed cenvat in both situations. Pl. Reply. Thanks and regards. - Reply By Naveed S - The Reply = 1) Yes 2) No - Reply By Lekh Sood - The Reply = Hello Dipak, Situation 1: As the law stood at the relevant time, interest and penalty is leviable even if the credit is not .....

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..... utilized. However, if the credit is reversed later , before being pointed out by excise authorities then there is no question of interest and penalty. This is so because credit reversed is held to be credit not availed. However, The dispute for the intervening period is not ruled out. If the credit was utilized then of course, the interest and penalty are leviable. Situation 2 Since now the ru .....

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..... le is the that the interest and penalty are leviable only if the cenvat credit is wrongly taken and utilized, the interest and penalty cannot be levied as the credit was not utilized. If the credit was utilized then the interest and penalty are leviable.If the credit is later reversed then the interest for the period from utilising the credit to reversing the credit will be levied. - PENALTY AND .....

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..... INTEREST ON REVERSAL OF CENVAT CREDIT WRONGLY AVAILED. - Query Started By: - DIPAK K Dated:- 18-12-2014 Central Excise - Got 2 Replies - Central Excise - Discussion Forum - Knowledge Sharing, reply post by an expert, personal opinion Tax Management India - taxmanagementindia - taxmanagement - taxmanagementindia.com - TMI - TaxTMI - TMITax .....

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