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Total No. of Questions— 9] | [Total No. of Printed Pages—4 |
Time Allowed : 3 Hours | Maximum Marks : 100 |
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Answers to questions are to be given only in English except in the cases of candidates who have opted for Hindi medium. If a candidate who has not opted for Hindi medium, answers in Hindi, his answers in Hindi will not be valued. | |
Question Nos. 1,6 and 9 are compulsory. In addition thereto, answer any two questions from Part "A" and any one question from Part "B". | |
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PART—A |
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1. | (a) | Briefly explain any two of the following with reference to the provisions of Central Excise Act, 1944:
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(b) | What is the period of validity of registration certificate granted by the Appropriate Excise Authority? | 2 | |||||||
(c) | Discuss the validity or otherwise of the following statements, with reasons:
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(d) | State the offences under Rule 25(1) pf Central Excise Rules. | 4 | |||||||
(e) | A2z & Co., manufactured Shikai powder. They purchased Shikai seeds, crushed them and sold the same. The assessee did not pay exicse duty on such powder contending that such powder was not an excisable goods. However, the Central Excise department treated the said goods as excisable goods by classifying under the chapter heading "3305.99—Cosmetic or toilet preparations, essential oil etc—preparations for use on the hair—other". Discuss on the validity of the contention of the assessee. | 4 | |||||||
2. | (a) | M/s P Ltd. manufactured concentrates of non–alcoholic beverages and sold it to various bottlers. The bottlers after processing the concentrates bottled the outcome and sold the same. Under the agreement between P Ltd. and the bottlers, P Ltd. was required to advertise the finished products. Subsequently the bottlers formed S Ltd. to work as a centralised agency for the advertisement of the finished products. Subsequently, the bottlers formed S Ltd. to work as a centralised agency for the advertisement of the finished products. The shareholders as well as the directors of S Ltd. were the representatives of the bottlers.
Determine whether or not the expenses of advertisement incurred by S Ltd. to advertise aerated products manufactured by the third party i.e. bottlers is includible in the assessable cost of concentrate manufactured by P Ltd. |
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(b) | Examine the validity of the following statements:
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(c) | Explain the non–applicability of "Transaction value" with reference to Section 4 of Central Excise Act, 1944. | 5 | |||||||
(d) | What is "Exempted goods" under Cenvat Credit Rules? | 2 |
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3. | (a) | The appellants were the manufacturers of rubber products. Some of the defective goods were returned by the buyers and the appellants took Cenvat credit of the duty originally paid under Rule 16 of Central Excise Rules, 2002. Defective goods were reprocessed, which activity however yielded only scrap and scrap was cleared on payment of duty. Department claimed that Cenvat credit taken by the appellants should be reversed since reprocessing did not amount to manufacture whereas appellants argued that the process cannot be anything other than 'manufacture' in as much as the defective goods returned by their buyers were put to normal process of manufacture.
Offer your comments to the appellants referring to decided case law. |
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(b) | What are the provisions regarding general exemption to SSI units? | 5 | |
(c) | M/s P Ltd. used to label its products with a foreign brand and claimed exemption under a notification. The classification list was approved by the department after carrying out verifications and all returns were regularly filed. The invoice containing description of goods were also regularly approved by the department. The department denied of exemption to the assessee by invoking extended period of limitation under Section 11A on the ground that it failed to declare the particulars regarding affixing of labels. Is the department justified? | 5 | |
4. | (a) | Explain whether a person who is neither a producer nor a curer nor a manufacturer of excisable goods, but he only stores such goods in a warehouse, can be called upon to pay the duties of excise on such goods? | 3 |
(b) | "The value of price support incentives received from the raw materials supplier should be included in the assessable value of the final products". Do you agree? Explain. | 3 | |
(c) | Briefly explain the procedure to be adopted in respect of exported goods subsequently re–imported and returned to factory. | 4 | |
(d) | Explain the concept of 'Provisional Assessment' under Rule 7 of the Central Excise Rules, 2002. | 5 | |
5. | (a) | Discuss the power of Central Government to amend first and second schedules of Central Excise Tariff. | 3 |
(b) | What would be the outcome, if retail price is not indicated or wrongly indicated at the time of removal? | 3 | |
(c) | State the non–application of provisions of unjustenrichment under Section 11B(2) of Central Excise Act, 1944. | 4 | |
(d) | State the powers of Settlement Commission under Section 32 of Central Excise Act, 1944. | 5 |
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PART—B |
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6. | (a) | Explain briefly with reference to the provisions of the Customs Act, 1962 any two of the following:
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(b) | State the situation in which the proper officer is authorized to issue show cause notice under Section 28 of Customs Act, 1962 and also the time limit. | 5 | |||||||||||||
(c) | The assessee M Ltd. entered into a joint venture with a foreign collaborator N for promotion and selling antennas, accessories and other communication equipment. The agreement between them indicates that N owned majority of various functions that were carried out in respect of manufacture of antenna system in India, for which technical service fee was paid to N by M Ltd Based on the above facts, the department opined that both M Ltd. and N were related person in terms of Rules 2(2)(1) and 2(2Xiv) of the Customs Valuation (Determination of Price of Imported goods) Rules, 1988 and that the technical fee paid by M Ltd. was includible in the assessable value of the imported components in terms of Rules 9(1)(c) of the Rules. Decide referring to decided case law. | 5 | |||||||||||||
(d) | From the following particulars, calculate assessable value and total custom duty payable:
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7. | (a) | After visiting USA, Mrs. & Mr. X brought to India a lap–top computer valued at Rs. 80,000, personal effects valued at Rs. 90,000 and personal computer for Rs. 52,000. What is the customs duty payable? | 3 | ||||||||||||
(b) | Write a brief note on the following with reference to the Customs Act, 1962:
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(c) | State the requirements to be satisfied to accept 'transaction value' under rule 4(2) of Customs Valuation Rules. | 6 | |||||||||||||
8. | (a) | Enumerate the penalties in respect of improper exportation of goods under Section 114 of Customs Act. | 3 | ||||||||||||
(b) | State the difference between transit and transhipment of goods under the provisions of Customs Act. | 4 | |||||||||||||
(c) | State the ingredients in the case of seizure under Section 123 of Customs Act. | 4 | |||||||||||||
(d) | Explain the provisions under Section 15 of the Customs Act for determining the rate of duty and tariff valuation of imported goods. | 4 |
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9. | (a) | State whether in the following cases service tax is payable, with reason:
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(b) | M/s TCCL, providing management consultancy to its client, do not maintain any separate accounts and have paid Rs. 1,00,000 as service tax and excise duty towards input services and input material/capital goods used by them. They have used the inputs for partially exempted and partially taxable services. They are now providing the output services for which current tax liability is Rs. 1,40,000. How much credit out of Rs. 1,00,000 can be availed by them for paying output service tax liability, if they do not maintain any separate accounts. | 4 | |||||||
(c) | Mr. AJAR a Chartered Accountant, raised an Invoice for Rs. 28,060 (25,000 + 3,060 service tax) to a client on 20.1.2007. The client, however, has paid a lump–sum of Rs. 26,000 on 28.4.2007 for full and final settlement:
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