Is registration under ce necessary for barge cutting

Dear Mr Sunil

As per central excise cutting, sliting and policing etc are not amount to manufacturing activity. so there is no need to register with excise.

You can register as trader if you want to transfer the credit amount to your customer.

Apart from this, there is general exemption in central excise that sales turnover upto 1.50 crores you need not require to register with central excise.

Regards,

RP Ananthakumar.

Dear Mr.Ananthkumar,

Thanks for your reply, but how can we pass on the credit as we do not get any invoice for purchase of scrap, we have already purchased the barge & have reduced the barge into scrap.

Can you please clarify on this. Also on a later date if dept issues us a SCN for not registering under manufacturer & demands excise duty, how should it be handled.

Pls revert Sir.