25 May 2012
Dear Sir, our customer has lost the duplicate for transporter excise invoice copy. he has hold our payment because of this issue as he can not take cenvat credit. I want to know can they avail cenvat credit on original for buyer copy.or is any provision for sending again duplicate copy. kindly reply how to solve above issue.
26 May 2012
You can advise your customer to lodge FIR for loss of transporter copy to avoid undue availment of cenvat credit. Cenvat credit can be availed on copy of buyer with acknowledged FIR copy.