CESTAT Allows Refund Of Amount Reversed In CENVAT Credit Account To Reliance Industries
Live LawThe Mumbai Bench of the Customs, Excise and Service Tax Appellate Tribunal has held that Reliance Industries Ltd. was ineligible for a refund of amounts that had, inadvertently, been reversed in the CENVAT credit account under rule 6 of the CENVAT Credit Rules, 2004 between April 2010 and March 2011.The two-member bench of Ajay Sharma and C.J. The Mumbai Bench of the Customs, Excise and Service Tax Appellate Tribunal has held that Reliance Industries Ltd. was ineligible for a refund of amounts that had, inadvertently, been reversed in the CENVAT credit account under rule 6 of the CENVAT Credit Rules, 2004 between April 2010 and March 2011. The appellant/Reliance Industries Ltd is a manufacturer of excisable goods and had availed credit under the CENVAT Credit Rules, 2004 on eligible "inputs" used in the manufacture of excisable goods. 4/2006-Central Excise Act, 1944 dated 1st March 2006, when cleared for use under the "public distribution system " were "exempted goods" within the meaning of rule 2 of CENVAT Credit Rules, 2004, reversed such proportion and also excluded it for the computation prescribed in rule 6 of CENVAT Credit Rules, 2004.