CBEC prescribes procedure for manual disbursal of Budgetary Support under Govt. Scheme to units located in Jammu & Kashmir, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh & North Eastern States including Sikkim, which were eligible for drawing benefits under the earlier excise duty exemption/ refund schemes stopped w.e.f. 01/07/2017 in the GST Regime.
CBEC Circular dt. 27/11/2017: Prescribed Procedure for Manual Disbursal of Budgetary Support to certain Units in GST Regime
CBEC has prescribed procedure for manual disbursal of Budgetary Support under Govt. Scheme to the existing eligible manufacturing units operating/ located in the States of Jammu & Kashmir, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh & North Eastern States including Sikkim, which were eligible for drawing benefits under the earlier excise duty exemption/ refund schemes stopped w.e.f. 01/07/2017 in the GST Regime.
DIPP Notification dt. 05/10/2017: Scheme for Budgetary Support in GST to Units in J&K, HP, UK, NE
1.1 In pursuance of the decision of the Government of India to provide budgetary support to the existing eligible manufacturing units operating in the States of Jammu & Kashmir, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh and North Eastern States including Sikkim under different Industrial Promotion Schemes of the Government of India, for a residual period for which each of the units is eligible, a new scheme is being introduced. The new scheme is offered, as a measure of goodwill, only to the units which were eligible for drawing benefits under the earlier excise duty exemption/refund schemes but has otherwise no relation to the erstwhile schemes.
1.2 Units which were eligible under the erstwhile Schemes and were in operation through exemption notifications issued by the Department of Revenue in the Ministry of Finance, as listed under para 2 below would be considered eligible under this scheme. All such notifications have ceased to apply w.e.f. 01/07/2017 and stands rescinded on 18/07/2017 vide notification no. 21/2017 dated 18/07/2017. The scheme shall be limited to the tax which accrues to the Central Government under Central Goods and Service Act, 2017 and Integrated Goods and Services Act, 2017, after devolution of the Central tax or the Integrated tax to the States, in terms of Article 270 of the Constitution.
2. The erstwhile Schemes which were in operation on 18/07/2017 were as follows:
2.1 Jammu & Kashmir– Notification nos. 56/2002 CE dated 14/11/2002, 57/2002 CE dated 14/11/2002 and 01/2010 CE dated 06/02/2010 as amended from time to time;
2.2 Himachal Pradesh & Uttarakhand– Notification nos. 49/2003 CE dated 10/06/2003 and 50/2003 CE dated 10/06/2003 as amended from time to time;
2.3 North East States including Sikkim– Notification no 20/2007 CE dated 25/04/2007 as amended from time to time.
3. SHORT TITLE AND COMMENCEMENT
3.1 The scheme shall be called Scheme of Budgetary Support under Goods and Services Tax (GST) Regime to the units located in State of Jammu & Kashmir, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh and North Eastern States including Sikkim. The said Scheme shall come into operation w.e.f. 01/07/2017 for an eligible unit (as defined in para 4.1) and shall remain in operation for residual period (as defined in para 4.3 ) for each of the eligible unit in respect of specified goods (as defined in para 4.2 ). The overall scheme shall be valid upto 30.06.2027.
3.2 OBJECTIVE:
The GST Council in its meeting held on 30/09/2016 had noted that exemption from payment of indirect tax under any existing tax incentive scheme of Central or State Governments shall not continue under the GST regime and the concerned units shall be required to pay tax in the GST regime. The Council left it to the discretion of Central and State Governments to notify schemes of budgetary support to such units. Accordingly, the Central Government in recognition of the hardships arising due to withdrawal of above exemption notifications has decided that it would provide budgetary support to the eligible units for the residual period by way of part reimbursement of the Goods and Services Tax, paid by the unit limited to the Central Government’s share of CGST and/or IGST retained after devolution of a part of these taxes to the States.
4. DEFINITIONS
4.1 ‘Eligible unit’ means a unit which was eligible before 01/07/2017 to avail the benefit of ab-initio exemption or exemption by way of refund from payment of central excise duty under notifications, as the case may be, issued in this regard, listed in para 2 above and was availing the said exemption immediately before 01/07/2017. The eligibility of the unit shall be on the basis of application filed for budgetary support under this scheme with reference to:
(a) Central Excise registration number, for the premises of the eligible manufacturing unit, as it existed prior to migration to GST; or
(b) GST registration for the premises as a place of business, where manufacturing activity under exemption notification no. 49/2003 CE dated 10/06/2003 and 50/2003 CE dated 10/06/2003 were being carried prior to 01/07/2017 and the unit was not registered under Central Excise.
4.2 ‘Specified goods’ means the goods specified under exemption notifications, listed in paragraph 2, which were eligible for exemption under the said notifications, and which were being manufactured and cleared by the eligible unit by availing the benefit of excise duty exemption, from:
(a) The premises under Central Excise with a registration number, as it existed prior to migration to GST; or
(b) The manufacturing premises registered in GST as a place of business from where the said goods under exemption notification no. 49/2003 CE dated 10/06/2003 and 50/2003 CE dated 10/06/2003 were being cleared
4.3 ‘Residual period’ means the remaining period out of the total period not exceeding ten years, from the date of commencement of commercial production, as specified under the relevant notification listed in paragraph 2, during which the eligible unit would have been eligible to avail exemption for the specified goods. The documentary evidence regarding date of commercial production shall be submitted in terms of para 5.7. (…contd… please refer above attachment)