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2017 (11) TMI 1778 - CGOVT - Central ExciseRebate of duty - export of Gutkha - prohibited item or not? - N/N. 19/2004-C.E. (N.T.), dated 6-9-2004 read with N/N. 32/2008-C.E. (N.T.), dated 28-8-2008 - Held that:- One of the conditions for allowing rebate of duty on excisable goods under Notification No. 19/2004-C.E. (N.T.), dated 6-9-2004 read with Notification No. 32/2008-C.E. (N.T.), dated 28-8-2008 is that export of goods should not be prohibited under any law for the time being in force. Since the export of Gutkha from 18-7-2012 involving sale, transportation and storage etc. in the State of Rajasthan was prohibited by the Government of Rajasthan, the above condition in Notification No. 19/2004 that goods should not be prohibited under any law is undoubtedly attracted in this case. Therefore, the Government observes that the rebate of duty has been rightly disallowed by the Commissioner (Appeals) to the applicant - Therefore, the applicant’s contention that Gutkha is not prohibited for export under the Rajasthan Government’s order or under the Central Excise and Customs Acts is completely misplaced. The applicant has advanced an additional argument in the synopsis given during the personal hearing that since the duty of Central Excise has been accepted by the jurisdictional Central Excise authorities in respect of the exported Gutkha, its rebate of duty cannot be refused under Rule 18 of Central Excise Rules, 2002 - Held that:- This argument is not found legally and factually tenable for two reasons. First, the duty of excise on exported Gutkha was paid by the applicant in advance much before its production etc. was banned by the Government of Rajasthan under compounded levy scheme and secondly payment of duty on manufacture of goods and rebate of duty are two different things. Rebate of duty is admissible as per conditions and procedure specified under Notification No. 32/2008, read with Notification No. 19/2004, dated 6-9-2004, and thus it is not necessary that wherever duty of excise is paid on manufactured goods, rebate of duty is always admissible on export of goods. Since under these two notifications rebate of duty is not admissible in respect of prohibited goods, the applicant does not have any other basis for claiming the rebate of duty in this situation. Revision application dismissed.
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