26 March 2018
Dear Guru's Kindly guide me whether cess on coal is refundable or not. We are in power manufacturing and Kraft Paper manufacturing unit. we purchased coal from Singareni Coals. They charging cess on coal. There is no output cess for our products.Can we avail input on such cess? Kindly advise me.
28 March 2018
Hi. You can claim the input tax credit of cess paid. However, since there is no output cess you will not be able to set-off the input tax credit of Cess paid on inputs. Hence, you may even decide to not claim the input of cess at all.