Government of India
Ministry of Finance
(Department of Revenue)
Notification No.16/2009 – Central Excise (N.T.)
New Delhi, the 7th July, 2009
G.S.R. (E).- In exercise of the powers conferred by section 37 of the Central
Excise
Act, 1944 (1 of 1944) and section 94 of the Finance Act, 1994 (32 of 1994), the
Central
Government hereby makes the following rules further to amend the CENVAT Credit
Rules,
2004, namely:-
- (1) These rules may be called the CENVAT Credit (Amendment) Rules, 2009.
(2) They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official
Gazette.
- In the CENVAT Credit Rules, 2004 (hereinafter referred to as the said rules),
in rule 2, in clause (k), in Explanation 2, after the words “factory of the
manufacturer”, the following shall be inserted, namely:-
“but shall not include cement, angles, channels, Centrally Twisted Deform
bar(CTD) or Thermo Mechanically Treated bar(TMT) and other items used for
construction of factory shed, building or laying of foundation or making of
structures for support of capital goods”.
- In the said rules, in rule 3, for sub-rule (5B), the following sub-rule shall
be substituted, namely:-
“(5B) If the value of any,
(i) input, or
(ii) capital goods before being put to use,
on which CENVAT credit has been taken is written off fully or where any
provision to write off fully has been made in the books of account, then the
manufacturer or service provider, as the case may be, shall pay an amount
equivalent to the CENVAT credit taken
in respect of the said input or capital goods:
Provided that if the said input or capital goods is subsequently used in the
manufacture of final products or the provision of taxable services, the
manufacturer or output service provider, as the case may be, shall be entitled
to take the credit of the amount equivalent
to the CENVAT credit paid earlier subject to the other provisions of these
rules.”.
- In the said rules, in rule 6, in sub-rule (3), for clause (i), the following
clause shall be substituted, namely:-
“(i) the manufacturer of goods shall pay an amount equal to five per cent. of
value of the
exempted goods and the provider of output service shall pay an amount equal to
six per cent. of value of the exempted services; or”.
[F.No.334/13/2009-TRU]
(Prashant Kumar)
Under Secretary to the Government of India
Note.- The principal rules were notified vide notification No. 23/2004-Central
Excise (N.T.), dated the 10th September 2004, vide number G.S.R.600(E), dated
the 10th September,2004, and last amended by notification No. 50/2008-Central
Excise (N.T.), dated the 31st December, 2008, vide number G.S.R. 908(E), dated
the 31st December, 2008.