Excise Duty : Central Excise duty on Jewellery though introduced initially for branded Jewellery and later extended to all Jewellery was subsequ...
Excise Duty : The practice prevalent in jewellery industries in India on charging for wastages from the customers along with the cost of jewelle...
Excise Duty : ER8 is a quarterly Return for production and removal of goods and other relevant particulars. The excel utility can be used for cr...
Excise Duty : This write up is to update you on the recent developments on applicability of Excise on Gems and Jewellery Industry. On the basis ...
Excise Duty : In this year’s Budget, a nominal excise duty of 1% [without CENVAT Credit on Capital Goods and Inputs] and 12.5% [with CENVAT Cr...
Excise Duty : Government accepts the recommendations of Sub-Committee of the High Level Committee to interact with Trade & Industry on Tax Laws ...
Excise Duty : The publication Central Excise Law and Procedure for Jewellery Industry has been brought out by Indirect Taxes Committee of ICAI t...
Excise Duty : Government constitutes a Sub-Committee under the aegis of the High Level Committee (HLC) on issues related to excise duty on diffe...
Income Tax : There is no requirement of declaring pre-budget stocks. Directions have also been issued barring any visits to the jeweller’s p...
Excise Duty : In this year’s Budget, a nominal excise duty of 1% [without input tax credit] and 12.5% [with input tax credit] has been imposed...
Excise Duty : In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 5A of the Central Excise Act, 1944 (1 of 1944), the Central Gove...
Excise Duty : Specification of 17th August, 2016 as the date on which clause (v) of rule 5 and rule 6 of Central Excise (Amendment) Rules, 2016 ...
Excise Duty : a) Annex I - contains a brief summary of the amendments made vide various notifications to the existing Tariff and Non-Tariff noti...
Excise Duty : i. All jewellery manufactured and removed, on or before February 29, 2016, from the premises of the job workers or any other premi...
Excise Duty : i. No transit checks shall be carried out by the excise officials for checking movement of semi-finished or finished articles of j...
In order to be eligible to the concessional rate of duty of 1%, the articles of jewellery shall be manufactured from inputs or capital goods on which appropriate duty of excise leviable has been paid. Appropriate duty includes nil duty also. On failing to prove it, the duty at tariff rate i.e. 12.5% shall apply.
The Central Government has , by Circular No. 1026/14/2016-CX dated 23rd April, 2016, extended the time limit for taking Central Excise registration of an establishment by a jeweller up to 01.07.2016. However, the liability for payment of Central Excise duty is with effect from 1st March, 2016. The assessee jewellers may make the payment of Excise Duty for the months of March, 2016, April, 2016 and May, 2016 along with the payment of Excise Duty for the month of June, 2016.
Imposition of Central Excise duty on jewellery Constitution of sub-committee of the High Level Committee – regarding- In continuation to the Circular No. 1021/9/2016-CX dated 21.03.2016, issued vide F. No. 354/25/2016-TRU, the composition of the Sub-Committee referred to therein would be as under:
Excise duty of 1% (without CENVAT credit) or 12.5% (with CENVAT credit) is being levied on articles of jewellery [excluding silver jewellery, other than studded with diamonds/other precious stones]. Before dwelling deep into the subject, it would be appropriate to first understand the concept of excise duty.
The publication Central Excise Law and Procedure for Jewellery Industry has been brought out by Indirect Taxes Committee of ICAI to familiarize the members and the industry with the various provisions of excise law and procedures pertaining to the levy of excise duty on jewellery. The response to the publication has been encouraging.
Krishna, what is the reason of agitation held by Jewellers across the Country. Why there businesses are closed from so many days? Let us discuss the reason of agitations as well as implication of taxation on gold and effect of the same on businessman and customers.
From last 35 days All over the country all jewelers are on Strike against the Excise duty imposed in the Union Budget 2016. Holi, Gudi Padwa, etc. all festival are passed or in upcoming days but still they are on STRIKE and also government also not accepting the demand as the Imposition of excise in line with GST.
Excise Duty has been imposed on the article of jewellery in the Union Budget 2016-17. There has been protest by trade fearing the nuisances of excise. There fear is not without justifiable reasons considering the rigorous provisions of Gold Control Act, 1968 which they were subjected to. It is perceived that if the duty is reintroduced, they would again be going back to the old regime where inspector raj would prevail.
Valuation is one of the most crucial aspects for a manufacturer engaged in manufacturing of jewellery considering high value transactions and frequent fluctuation in prices leave little margin for error. This also necessitates that the value adopted for duty purpose is properly documented with supporting evidence so that the valuation is not questioned by excise officers at the time of enquiries, audits, scrutinizes or investigation proceedings.
Registration with tax authorities is first step for any assessee to make compliance with the law and similar is the case for jewelers who have been brought within excise ambit in Budget 2016-17. But it is very interesting that special provisions have been made for registration of person engaged in manufacturing of jewellery under excise and these provisions could sometime offer tremendous planning opportunities to optimize the tax liability.
