Central Excise ??

srinivasan (Freelancer - Accounting / GST / TDS / Service Tax Refund / Customs / STPI / Tax Filing )   (70 Points)

04 October 2008  

A small scale unit buys duty paid MS tubes from the

manufacturers. It cuts them and puts them in swaging

machines in which dies are fitted which imparts "folds"

to the flat surface of the MS tubes. Is the process of

swaging undertaken by the small scale unit amounts

to 'manufacture' under Central Excise Act, 1944?