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2015 (6) TMI 79 - AT - Service TaxCENVAT Credit - Trading activity - Revenue is of the view that the appellant is not eligible for credit of input services in proportion to the turnover of trading activities and that of manufacturing activities - Invocation of extended period of limitation - Held that:- Eligibility of credit is defined in Rule 3 read with definition in Rule 2(l). It is only after that various questions in Rule 6, come into play. Rule 6(5) cannot be read in isolation but has to be read in the overall scheme of the things. - t trading was not a service and therefore, cannot be considered as an exempted service during the period prior to 1.4.2011 and the amended provision with effect from 1.4.2011 will not have retrospective effect Quantification of credit to reversed towards trading activity - period prior to 1.4.2011 - Held that:- the credit of tax paid on such sales promotion activities should be apportioned with reference to the turnover of the manufactured cars and turnover of the traded cars. For example, if the turnover in particular period is say ₹ 1000 crore out of which turnover of ₹ 700 is pertaining to the indigenous cars and turnover of ₹ 300 crores pertains to the imported and traded cars then if the input credit of 10 crores is available then 7 crore should be considered for the manufactured cars in India and credit of ₹ 3 crore should be considered pertaining to imported and traded cars. Credit of input or input services is allowed only in order to eliminate the cascading effect of taxes. Thus, for taking credit, the trading activity should be taxable under Service Tax or Excise Law. The credit of input or input services is not allowed in respect of non-taxable activities. Here is a case where the services were used for trading activity. The appellant should have not taken the credit in the first instance itself, which was totally wrong on their part. They did not indicate in the returns that the credit relating to the trading activities was also being availed by them. Therefore, this is a clear case of suppression, and conduct of the appellant in this regard does not take him further and the extended period of limitation has been rightly invoked. No hesitation whatsoever in holding that taking credit in respect of services used in trading activity cannot be considered as bona fide at all. Just because the Government has put a trust in the trade and permitted them to take credit without any reference to tax authorities, it does not imply that the appellant can avail any credit whether permissible or not under the law and the later on, take the plea that the same is not recoverable on the grounds that the issue involves interpretation and hence the extended period of limitation cannot be applied. Undoubtedly, the returns filed by the appellant as ISD were not in accordance with law. The declaration made in the ST-3 returns was not correct. Hence the penalty imposed is upheld. - letter contains more than what was submitted during the course of hearing as also in the grounds of appeal filed before this Tribunal. As per Rule 10 of the CESTAT (Procedure) Rules, 1982, the appellant shall, except by the leave of the Tribunal, urge or be heard in support of any grounds not set forth in the memorandum of appeal. The procedure being followed by the learned counsel for the appellant is totally incorrect and we, therefore, refuse to discuss the submissions made in the said letter (even though we have gone through the said letter and find that the submissions made are devoid of even any consideration). - Decided against assessee.
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