#CENVAT #Credits is now allowed for import duty paid through authorized #Courier

[TO BE PUBLISHED IN THE GAZETTE OF INDIA, EXTRAORDINARY, PART II, SECTION 3, SUB-SECTION (i)]

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF FINANCE
(DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE)

Notification

No. 27/2015 - Central Excise (N.T)

 New Delhi, the 31^st  December, 2015

G.S.R.    (E).-   In exercise of the powers conferred by section 37 of the Central Excise Act, 1944 (1 of 1944) and section 94 of the Finance Act, 1994 (32 of 1994), the Central Government hereby makes the following rules further to amend the CENVAT Credit Rules, 2004, namely:-

• 1. (1)  These rules may be called the CENVAT Credit (Sixth Amendment) Rules,  2015.
      (2)  They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the official  
      Gazette.
• 2.         In the CENVAT Credit Rules, 2004, in rule 9, in sub-rule (1), in clause (d), after the words “ Foreign Post Office”, the words “or, as the case may be, an Authorized Courier, registered with the Principal Commissioner of Customs or the Commissioner of Customs in-charge of the customs airport,” shall be inserted.

[F. No. 267/34/2015/Pt. – CX-8]

(Shankar Prasad Sarma)

Under Secretary to the Government of India

Note - The principal rules were published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i), vide number G.S.R 600(E ) dated the 10^th September, 2004 {Notification No. 23/2004 – Central Excise (N.T) dated the 10^th September, 2004} and was last amended vide number G.S.R. 818(E), dated the 29^th October, 2015 {Notification No. 22/2015 -Central Excise (N.T.), dated the 29^th October, 2015}.