Notification No. 14/2013-Central Excise (N.T.) ; Dated : 22.11.2013

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CBEC vide Notification No. 14/2013- CX(NT) dated 22.11.2013 has amended Rules 8, 9 and 10 of the Central Excise Valuation Rules, 2000 dealing with determination of assessable value in case of captive consumption and sale to related person.

These rules have been amended to provide that irrespective of whether the whole or a part of the clearances of manufactured goods are covered by the circumstances given in these rules, each clearance is required to be assessed according to section 4(1)(a) of the Central excise Valuation Rules, 2000 or the relevant rule dealing with the circumstances of clearance of the goods, as the case may be.

For example, if an assessee clears his goods in such a way that first removal of goods is to an independent buyers, some goods are captively consumed, second removal is to a related person who is covered under rule 9 and third removal is to a person who is covered under rule 10, then the first removal should assessed under section 4(1)(a), captively consumed goods should be assessed under rule 8, second removal should be assessed under rule 9 and third removal should be assessed under rule 10 of these rules. It may be noted that Central Excise Valuation Rules, 2000 are not required to be followed sequentially. Each of these rules provide for arriving at the assessable value of goods under different contingencies as noted by Hon’ble Supreme Court at paragraph 70 in case of Commissioner of Hon’ble Supreme Court at paragraph 70 in case of Commissioner of Central Excise, Mumbai vs M/s FIAT India Pvt Ltd [2012 (283) ELT 161 or 2012-TIOL-58-SC-CX].

Notification No 14/2013 – Central Excise ( N.T.)

New Delhi, the 22^nd November, 2013

G.S.R. (E). – In exercise of the powers conferred by section 37 of the Central Excise Act, 1944 (1 of 1944), the Central Government hereby makes the following rules to further amend the Central Excise Valuation (Determination of Price of Excisable Goods) Rules, 2000, namely:-

1. (1) These rules may be called the Central Excise Valuation (Determination of Price of Excisable Goods) Amendment Rules, 2013.

(2) They shall come into force with effect from the 1st day of December, 2013.

2. In the Central Excise Valuation (Determination of Price of Excisable Goods) Rules, 2000 (hereinafter referred to as the said rules), for rule 8, the following rule shall be substituted, namely:-

“8. Where whole or part of the excisable goods are not sold by the assessee but are used for consumption by him or on his behalf in the production or manufacture of other articles, the value of such goods that are consumed shall be one hundred and ten per cent of the cost of production or manufacture of such goods.”

3. In the said rules, in rule 9, for the words “When the assessee so arranges that the excisable goods are not sold by an assessee except to or through a person who is related in the manner specified in any of the sub-clauses (ii), (iii) or (iv) of clause (b) of sub-section (3) of section 4 of the Act, the value of the goods shall be the normal transaction value”, the words “Where whole or part of the excisable goods are sold by the assessee to or through a person who is related in the manner specified in any of the sub-clauses (ii), (iii) or (iv) of claus (b) of sub-section (3) of section 4 of the Act, the value of such goods shall be the normal transaction value” shall be substituted.

4. In the said rules, in rule 10, for the words “When the assessee so arranges that the excisable goods are not sold by him except to or through an inter-connected undertaking, the value of goods shall be determined in the following manner, namely:- ” the words “Where whole or part of the excisable goods are sold by the assessee to or through an inter-connected undertaking, the value of such goods shall be determined in the following manner, namely:- ” shall be substituted.

F. No. 6/12/2009-CX-1

(Pankaj Jain)
Under Secretary to the Government of India

Note – The principal rules were published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, sub-section (i) vide notification No. 45/2000-Central Excise (N.T.), G.S.R. 575(E), dated the 30th June, 2000 and was last amended vide notification No. 9/2007 – C.E. (N.T.), G.S.R 149 (E), dated the 1^st March, 2007.