Chatroom: T N C Rajagopalan

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‘Excise duty is payable on all goods

fabricated at construction sites’


Valuation (Determination of the significance or application headings and the expressions
Price of Imported Goods) of the rationale of that judg- used therein, and accordingly
Rules, 2007. They rejected our ment in your case. claim the exemption.
declaration of value as
declared at the time of export, We fabricate certain items Our client in a Special
on the grounds that the value like windows, doors, etc., at Economic Zone (SEZ) has
declared at the time of export the construction site and fix given us a copy of Form-A1,
was low. We seek your views them on to buildings. Are we and says that on the basis of
on whether the stand taken required to pay excise duty on that Form A-1, we should not
by the Customs is correct. the items? charge service tax. Can we
On almost identical facts, the If the goods that come into accede to his request?
CHATROOM Tribunal has held, in the case existence at the site are move- Notification no. 40/2012-ST
T N C RAJAGOPALAN of Emkay (India) Rubber Co. able, even through you may dated June 20, 2012 says that
Ltd. [2012 (286) ELT 699 (Tri. fix them on to immovable where the specified services
Del.)], that the said Valuation structures, they will be excis- received in a SEZ and used for
We had re-imported goods Rules should not be applied in able, as held by the Larger the authorised operations are
that had been exported by us case of re-imports and that the bench of the Tribunal in the wholly consumed within the
and rejected by the buyer, value declared at the time of case of Mahindra and SEZ, the person liable to pay
who found them to be export must be adopted for the Mahindra Ltd. [2005 (190) ELT service tax has the option not
defective. We are not claiming assessment of duty. In that par- 621 (Tri.LB)]. But, S. No. 206 of to pay the service tax ab initio.
any exemption, as the time ticular case, the importer had the notification no. 12/2012- The only condition for not
limits have passed. We are availed himself of the exemp- CE dated 17.3.2012 exempts ‘all charging service tax is to obtain
ready to pay duties as per tion under notification no. goods fabricated at site of work Form A-1 duly verified by the
Section 20 of the Customs Act, 158/95-Cus dated 14.11.1995 but for use in construction work at Specified Officer and a list of
1962. The Customs say that in failed to re-export the goods in such site’ falling under the services approved by the
that case, the goods have to be time and so, the duties became headings 7305 or 7308 from Approval Committee. If the
valued as per Section 14 of the payable. However, in my opin- the whole of excise duty. You SEZ unit/developer has given
Customs Act, 1962 read with ion, that variation in the facts may examine whether your those documents, you need
the related Customs of that case does not take away goods fall under the said not charge service tax.

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