Solar products

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Querist : Anonymous

Querist : Anonymous (Querist)

05 June 2015 Experts Please help me...

Whether Solar products are exempt from excise duty..

Solar water pumping systems, Solar lighting systems and Solar Photo voltaic modules are exempt from excise duty or not.

please explain with giving reference of notification if any..

Regards,
GSA

RAMESH KUMAR VERMA

RAMESH KUMAR VERMA (Expert)
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10 June 2015 Dear Anonymous,

Refer to Excise Duty Exemption Certificate (EDEC) shall be issued by MNRE for each Purchase Order. The proposal for EDEC may be submitted to MNRE throughempanelledChartered Engineer who shall certify the quantity with respect to the approved TotalBill of Material and also having regard to the provisions/conditions of Excise Notification No.15/2010-Central Excise dated 27th February 2010 which was amended vide Notification No.26/2012-Central Excise, dated 8th May 2012, and No.15/2014-Central Excise dated 11th July 2014, issued by Ministry of Finance (Deptt. of Revenue).

In the event of any excess quantity with respect to TotalBill of Material, the empanelled Chartered Engineer shall certify the excess quantity clearly endorsing the reasons for such increase. The EDEC is to be generated online and the hard copy thereof is to be submitted, in duplicate, after duly signed in ink by the Chief Executive Officer of the project and the empanelled Chartered Engineer, to MNRE. Project Developer must enclose a copy of purchase order (PO) of the item being procured, for which the excise duty exemption certificate (EDEC) is sought.

noted that i have an office memorandum in PDF file of Ministry of New & Renewable Energy,Block 14, CGO Complex, Lodi Road,
New Delhi-110003, Dated.28th November, 2014