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Issues: (i) whether interest for delayed payment of excise duty under Rule 173G(1)(d) of the Central Excise Rules, 1944 was payable on the outstanding duty amount or on the reducing balance after taking Cenvat credit into account; (ii) whether the penalty of Rs. 2 lakhs was liable to be reduced.
Issue (i): whether interest for delayed payment of excise duty under Rule 173G(1)(d) of the Central Excise Rules, 1944 was payable on the outstanding duty amount or on the reducing balance after taking Cenvat credit into account.
Analysis: The rule required payment of the outstanding duty amount together with interest at the prescribed rate from the day after the due date until actual payment. The wording was held to be clear and unambiguous. On that construction, interest could not be computed on a reducing balance after adjusting Cenvat credit, because the statutory liability attached to the unpaid duty amount.
Conclusion: The appellant was not entitled to compute interest on the reducing balance basis and the demand of additional interest was sustained.
Issue (ii): whether the penalty of Rs. 2 lakhs was liable to be reduced.
Analysis: While upholding the interest demand, the order took into account the facts and circumstances of the case and exercised discretion on the penalty component.
Conclusion: The penalty was reduced from Rs. 2 lakhs to Rs. 50,000.
Final Conclusion: The substantive levy of additional interest was upheld, but the penalty was substantially curtailed.
Ratio Decidendi: Where a rule mandates interest on the outstanding duty amount, the liability must be computed on the unpaid duty itself and not on a reduced balance after Cenvat credit adjustments.
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