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Excise relief for branded SSI packing materials

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Amendment takes effect from September 1

NEW DELHI: The Central Government on Monday extended the small-scale industry (SSI) excise duty exemption scheme to certain branded packaging materials which were hitherto not covered under the relief facility.

To facilitate this, the Government issued a fresh SSI exemption notification following the Supreme Court ruling that the wording of the earlier notification did not permit excise duty waiver to branded goods.

As per the amendment, which came into effect from September 1, the duty exemption would be available to SSI units with a turnover of Rs. 90 lakh during the remaining part of the current financial year.

“The benefit of the exemption shall be available to goods bearing the brand name or trade name of another person if they are in the nature of packing materials, namely, printed cartons of paper or paper board, metal containers, HDPE woven sacks, adhesive tapes, stickers, PP caps, crown corks and metal labels,” an official statement said here.

In the past, disputes had arisen over the applicability of this condition to goods that bear the brand name of another person but which are sold under that brand name by the buyer of the goods and not by the SSI unit affixing the brand name.

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