CVD

Recently, the government issued fresh set of notifications rescinding the earlier ones which granted exemption from payment of Service tax on canned / packaged software if Excise duty / Customs duty (CVD) was paid. Similar set of exemption notificati Full Article

Your kind attention is invited to the Notification No.102/2007-Customs dated 14.9.2007, Notification No.93/2008-Customs dated 1.8.2008 and Board’s Circulars No. 6/2008-Customs dated 28.4.2008, No.16/2008-Customs dated 13.10.2008, No.6/2009-Customs dated 9.2.2009 and No.18/2010-Customs dated 8.7.2010 containing instructions on the procedure to be followed by the Customs field formations in case of 4% CVD refund claims. Full Article

Your kind attention is invited to the Notification No.102/2007-Customs dated 14.9.2007 and Board’s Circulars No.6/2008-Customs dated 28.4.2008 and No.16/2008-Customs dated 13.10.2008 regarding refund of 4% Additional Duty of Customs (4% CVD). Attention is also invited to the Board’s Circulars No.24/2007-Customs dated 2.7.2007, No.22/2008-Customs dated 19.12.2008 and No.7/2008-Customs dated 28.5.2008 which relate to general refund cases. Full Article

ALL anti-cancer and HIV drugs are likely to become cheaper as the forthcoming budget is likely to fully exempt these from customs duty/countervailing duty (CVD), but on the condition that the benefits are passed on to patients. Also, the finance ministry is understood to be considering hiking the weighted deduction on expenditure on research and development by drug companies to 200% from 150% and also extending the benefit by five years to March 2017. Full Article

Hon’ble Tribunal in Poly Hose India Pvt. Ltd. V/s Commissioner of Central Excise [2003 (152) ELT 361 (Tribunal)] held that Cenvat credit could be availed even when Additional Custom Duty is paid through DEPB. The order is well balanced and deals with all the relevant points. Off course it can be argued that para 4.3 of the EXIM policy was not pleaded in that case. I am of the view that even when that para 4.3 was pleaded the result would not have been different. Full Article

OFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONER OF CENTRAL EXCISE::  MADURAI-625 002.  Trade Notice No.   12 /2009             Dated:   13.03.2009.        Service Tax No.     4 /2009 Sub:- Service Tax – Credit on ‘Tangible goods’ supplied during the course of providing taxable service u/s 65(105)(zzzzj) – Regarding.                       Supply of tangible goods including machinery, equipments and [...] Full Article

There is no change in the peak rate of the custom duty in the current budget. Exemption from 4% additional duty of customs has been withdrawn :- The exemption from 4% additional duty of custom leviable under section 3(5) of the Custom Tariff Act has been withdrawn from Power generation projects, (Other than mega power projects) transmission, sub-transmission and distribution projects, and goods for high voltage transmission projects. Full Article