Does Excise duty is applicable on sale of goods imported under Zero percent EPCG scheme? If any notification or circular is available in this regard please update.
29 March 2013
In terms of para 5.6 of FTP, the EPCG Authorisation holder may source the capital goods from domestic sources instead of importing them. In this case, the supplier of capital goods will charge the excise duty at the time of supply of capital goods which is refundable either to the EPCG Authorisation holder or to the supplier. The EPCG authorisation holder can also take the CENVAT if he does not want to avail of the exemption. However, this provision of refund is beneficial to those EPCG Authorisation holder whose final products are exempt and cannot avail CENVAT.