Is excise duty payable or not

If you develop any dies in your factory premises, its comes under manufacture according to definition given under Section 2(f) of Central Excise Act. So the product dies is an excisable Porduct. However, you can claim exemption from excise duty under Notification No. 67/95 CE dated 16.3.95 since there is no physical removal of such dies from your factory and instead, the same are retained and used within the factory for manufacture of other excisable goods on which duty is payable. To transfer the ownership, you may raise excise invoice on your customer with Excise duty NIL 'quoting Notn 67/95 CE dated 16.3.95 - No physical removal, retained and used within the factory for captive consumption in the manufacture of excisable goods'. However, you have to amortise the total value of the dies over the components manufactured by you and you have to add the proportionate dies cost in each component to arrive at the Transaction value for the components cleared to your customer and pay duty on the compoents accordingly. This procedure has been approved by Hon'ble CESTAT in various cases

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