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..... Education Cess & S&H Cess
Query (Issue) Started By: - Kuldeep Kapoor Dated:- 15-3-2017 Last Reply Date:- 7-4-2017 Central Excise
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Central Excise
Respected Experts With kind regards submitted That In my Books I have received the education Cess as under : 2013-14 Education Cess 50% = ₹ 69316 S&HE Cess 34658 2014-15 50% of last Year Education Cess 50% = ₹ 69 .....

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..... 316 S&HE Cess 34658 2014-15 50% of Current Year Education Cess 50% = ₹ 336549 S&HE Cess 168283 2015-16 50% of Last Year Education Cess 50% = ₹ 336549 S&HE Cess 168283 2015-16 No Education Cess Nil S&H Cess = Nil I have cenvat Credit in my books as today is EDu Cess : 814307 - S&H Cess = 407172 Since we have Just started 1st sale in Jan-2017 and I seek guidance from experts how muc .....

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..... h Education Cess and S&H Cess I can merge with BED to make duty under Central Excise notification No. 12/2015-CE(NT) dated 30.04.2015 amended the rule 3(7)(b) of Cenvat Credit Rules ,2004 Reply By Ganeshan Kalyani: The Reply: Education cess cannot be clubbed with basic excise duty to claim credit. 2% education cess can be set off against 2% output excise duty and 1% education cess can be adjuste .....

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..... d against 1% output education cess. Cross utilisation is not allowed. Further, since there is no education cess is applicable now, you cannot avail the previous accumulated credits. Thanks. Reply By YAGAY AND SUN: The Reply: Edu Cess and SHE Cess can not be adjusted against BED. However, there is no clarity in MGST Law. Reply By KASTURI SETHI: The Reply: Dear Querist,. Do the X-ray of Notifi .....

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..... cation No.12/15 CE (NT) and 22/15 CE NT carefully, and you will find that still it is possible to use credit of cesses in BED. Reply By YAGAY AND SUN: The Reply: But just for after March 2015 receipts on which ED & SHE were paid. Reply By KASTURI SETHI: The Reply: Dear Querist,. PL. Note that it is a matter of "Time Factor". Such credit cannot be lapsed. Reply By YAGAY AND SUN: The .....

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..... Reply: However, there is no clarity on CESS from the MOF DOR. Reply By KASTURI SETHI: The Reply:  Worth reading 1999 (106) E.L.T. 3 (S.C.) = 1999 (1) TMI 34 - SUPREME COURT OF INDIA EICHER MOTORS LTD. Versus UNION OF INDIA 2012 (279) E.L.T. 194 (H.P.) RANBAXY LABORATORIES LTD.Versus COMMISSIONER OF C. EX., CHANDIGARH Reply By KASTURI SETHI: The Reply: Dear Querist,. Whenever there is .....

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..... ambiguity in law, benefit always goes to assessee. Govt. Should not be allowed to be enriched unjustifiably and unconstitutionally at the cost of assessee. Issue is worth legal fighting. Issue is not complicated. It is so simple that you can draft reply, if required, on your own on the pattern of The Supreme Court judgment. When area based exemption was allowed to Himachal Pradesh, SCNs were issu .....

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..... ed on this issue of lapse of credit. That case has also been decided in favour of assessee by the Supreme Court in the year 2015. Issue calls for moral courage to get substantive right.It is our duty to guide you honestly and decision is yours. Reply By HARSHAD BHAMRE: The Reply: Dear Sir , I gone through Noti No: 22/2015 & 12/2015 , as per both notification I can utilises credit as per given d .....

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..... ate condition . condition: * Credit availed on or after the 1st day of June, 2015 can be utilized for payment of service tax on any output service: * Credit availed on or after the 1st day of March, 2015 can be utilized for payment of the duty of excise liveable under the First Schedule to the Excise Tariff Act: but what about balance of 2% & 1% which is available with me before above dates. .....

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..... Please suggest. Thanks & Regards Harshad Bhamre Reply By KASTURI SETHI: The Reply: As per circular appended below, the accumulated credit of Education Cesses (lying before before 1.3.15 and 1.6.15 respectively ) would lapse. You will have to fight legally to get natural justice by taking the support of above mentioned case laws. You know Board's circulars have no statutory force. 96/85/ .....

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..... 2015-CX.1 dated 7.12.15 B.21 - Hyderabad, Coimbatore, Vadodara, Vishakhapatnam, Delhi Zone - Cenvat Credit - Balance of Education Cess and Secondary & Higher Education Cess lying in the CENVAT Credit Account : Issue: Exemption from levy of Education Cess and Secondary & Higher Education Cess has been provided w.e.f. 1-3-2015 vide notification no. 14/2015-C.E. & 15/2015-C.E. both dated 1-3-2015, .....

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..... Sub-rule 7(b) of Rule 3 of CENVAT Credit Rules, 2004, specifies that CENVAT credit of specified duties shall be utilized for payment of those specified duties only. CENVAT Credit of Education Cess and Secondary & Higher Education Cess can be utilized only for payment of Education Cess and Secondary & Higher Education Cess, respectively. Consequent upon grant of exemption there is issue of utiliza .....

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..... tion of the accumulated credit of the past. It is suggested that an amendment to sub-rule 7(b) of Rule 3 of CENVAT Credit Rules, 2004 may be made to allow the utilization of balance CENVAT Credit of Education Cess and Secondary & Higher Education Cess towards payment of either duty of excise or Service Tax. Discussion & Decision. The conference after discussion and briefing from the officers fro .....

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..... m the Board noted that it was Government's conscious policy decision to withdraw the Education Cess and Secondary & Higher Education Cess. It is a policy decision to not allow utilization of accumulated credit of education cess and secondary and higher education cess after these Cesses have been phased out. As these Cesses have been phased out and no new liability to pay such Cess arises, no veste .....

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..... d right can be said to exist in relation to the accumulated credit of the past. The rule and notifications as they exist need to be followed and do not need any amendment. Reply By KASTURI SETHI: The Reply: Dear Querist, Two judgements of Supreme Court are in your hands. Still not convinced ?
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