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Excise duty exemption for SSI units

Ravichander RC (Service) (120 Points)

26 March 2011

Sir,

I would like to know the Central Excise exemption limit for SSI units and relavant notification, if any.

Pls help

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U S Sharma (glidor@gmail.com) (21056 Points)
Replied 26 March 2011

Exemption Notification for SSI	SSI are eligible for exemption from duty under Notification No. 8/2003-CE dated 1-3-2003. The SSI unit need not be registered with any authority
Eligibility for SSI concession	Unit whose turnover was less that Rs 4 crores in previous year are entitled to full exemption upto Rs 150 lakhs in current financial year. SSI unit can avail Cenvat credit on inputs and input services only after it starts paying duty. However, Cenvat credit of capital goods can be availed even if these were received during period of exemption.
Articles eligible for SSI exemption	Broadly, items generally manufactured by SSI (except in tobacco, matches and textile sector) are eligible for SSI exemption. Some items like pan masala, matches, watches, tobacco products, Power driven pumps for water not confirming to BIS, products covered under compounded levy scheme etc. are specifically excluded, even when these can be manufactured by SSI. Some items like automobiles, primary iron and steel etc. are not eligible for SSI exemption, but anyway, these are beyond capacity of SSI unit to manufacture.
SSI unit manufacturing goods with other’s brand name not eligible for exemption	Goods manufactured by an SSI unit with brand name of others are not eligible for SSI concession, unless goods are manufactured in a rural area. However, SSI exemption will be available to packing material even if it bears brand name of other person.
Mode of calculation of limit of Rs 150 lakhs/Rs 400 lakhs	While calculating limit of Rs 400/150 lakhs – (a) Turnover of Exports, deemed exports, turnover of non-excisable goods, goods manufactured with other’s brand name and cleared on full payment of duty, job work done under notification No. 214/86-CE, 83/94-CE and 84/94-CE, processing not amounting to manufacture and traded goods is to be excluded (b) Value of intermediate products (when final product is exempt under notification other than SSI exemption notification), branded goods manufactured in rural area and cleared without payment of duty, export to Nepal and Bhutan and goods cleared on payment of duty is to be included (c) Value of turnover of goods exempted under notification (other than SSI exemption notification or job work exemption notification) is to be included for purpose of limit of Rs 400 lakhs, but excluded for limit of Rs 150 lakhs.
Procedural relaxations	SSI units eligible for SSI concession are required to pay duty on quarterly basis and file quarterly return even if they do not avail the SSI exemption
Turnover of all units of same manufacturer to be clubbed	Turnover of all units belonging to a manufacturer will be clubbed for calculating SSI exemption limit.
Clubbing if two units belonging to different firms/companies are apparently separate but are one in reality	If two SSI units are genuinely independent, they are eligible for SSI exemption, even if some or even most partners/directors are common. Financial control, flow back of profits and unity of interest are the major tests to determine whether turnover of two units is required to be clubbed.

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Pankaj Arora (Learner) (3134 Points)
Replied 26 March 2011

https://www.dateyvs.com/cenex09.htm

JAYABALAN (Partner) (27 Points)
Replied 06 November 2012

Thank you for the comprehensive info

D. Jayabalan

sushil roy (o) (22 Points)
Replied 01 May 2014

Thanks for comperhansive information.But required any amendment of notification 8/2003-CE

S.K. Roy

Raneez (accountant) (40 Points)
Replied 08 May 2014

when a ssi unit avials exememption upto 1.5 cr during a financial year , when it crosess 1.5 , is it possible for them to take input lying in raw material stock and finished goods at the time of crossing 1.5?....and when they want to avail exemption for the next year, is they required to pay the amount equal to the input lying in closing raw material stock and finished goods stock??