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No CENVAT Credit for Invoice if old for more than Six months

As per amended rule 4 of the CENVAT Credit Rules , 2004, now manufacturer of a final product or provider of output service need to take cenvat credit within SIX months from the date  of  issue of any documents as specified in sub rule (1) of rule 9 of the CENVAT Credit Rules.

  As per Rule 9(1) of the CENVAT credit rules , following documents are eligible to take cenvat credit:-

(a)
an invoice issued by- 

(i)
a manufacturer for clearance of -


(I)
inputs or capital goods from his factory or depot or from the premises of the consignment agent of
the said manufacturer or from any other premises from where the goods are sold by or on behalf
of the said manufacturer;


(II)
inputs or capital goods as such; 

(ii)

an importer;

(iii)

an importer from his depot or from the premises of the consignment agent of the said importer if the
said depot or the premises, as the case may be, is registered in terms of the provisions of Central
Excise Rules, 2002;

(iv)

a first stage dealer or a second stage dealer, as the case may be, in terms of the provisions of Central Excise Rules, 2002; or

(b)
a supplementary invoice, issued by a manufacturer or importer of inputs or capital goods in terms of the provisions of Central Excise Rules, 2002 from his factory or depot or from the premises of the consignment agent of the said manufacturer or importer or from any other premises from where the goods are sold by, or on behalf of, the said manufacturer or importer, in case additional amount of excise duties or additional duty leviable under section 3 of the Customs Tariff Act, has been paid, except where the additional amount of duty became recoverable from the manufacturer or importer of inputs or capital goods on account of any non-levy or short-levy by reason of fraud, collusion or any wilful misstatement or suppression of facts or contravention of any provisions of the Excise Act, or of the Customs Act, 1962 (52 of 1962) or the rules made there under with intent to evade payment of duty.


Explanation.- For removal of doubts, it is clarified that supplementary invoice shall also include challan or any other similar document evidencing payment of additional amount of additional duty leviable under section 3 of the Customs Tariff Act; or
(c)
a bill of entry; or
(d)
a certificate issued by an appraiser of customs in respect of goods imported through a Foreign Post Office; or
(e)
a challan evidencing payment of service tax by the person liable to pay service tax under sub-clauses (iii), (iv), (v) and (vii) of clause (d) of sub-rule (1) of rule (2) of the Service Tax Rules, 1994; or
(f)
an invoice, a bill or challan issued by a provider of input service on or after the 10th day of, September, 2004; or
(g)
an invoice, bill or challan issued by an input service distributor under rule 4A of the Service Tax Rules, 1994.
             Provided that the credit of additional duty of customs levied under sub-section (5) of section 3 of the Customs Tariff Act, 1975 (51 of 1975) shall not be allowed if the invoice or the supplementary invoice, as the case may be, bears an indication to the effect that no credit of the said additional duty shall be admissible;