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Issues: (i) Whether rebate on duty paid goods supplied from the domestic tariff area to a Special Economic Zone is hit by unjust enrichment. (ii) Whether rebate could be denied for alleged deficiencies in documents and procedural compliance, including the contractor and bill of export related objections.
Issue (i): Whether rebate on duty paid goods supplied from the domestic tariff area to a Special Economic Zone is hit by unjust enrichment.
Analysis: The relevant provisions of the Special Economic Zones Act, 2005 treat supply of goods from the domestic tariff area to a unit or developer in a Special Economic Zone as export. The available circular instructions also clarify that rebate under Rule 18 of the Central Excise Rules, 2002 is admissible for such supplies. In that statutory setting, the first proviso to Section 11B excludes the application of unjust enrichment to exports. The reasoning that such clearances were not exports was therefore not accepted.
Conclusion: The objection based on unjust enrichment was rejected and the assessee's claim was held to be maintainable on this ground.
Issue (ii): Whether rebate could be denied for alleged deficiencies in documents and procedural compliance, including the contractor and bill of export related objections.
Analysis: The record showed receipt of goods in the Special Economic Zone and endorsed ARE-1 documents, while the disputed objections related mainly to documentation, consignee description, and verification of use by the recipient units. The governing circulars and the SEZ framework contemplate application of the central excise rebate procedure with SEZ-specific compliance, and the authority held that the substantive rebate claim should not fail merely on procedural lapses. It was also directed that the original authority verify the documents and permit the assessee to establish the authorization of the contractors concerned.
Conclusion: The procedural objections were not treated as a final bar to rebate, and the matter was sent back for verification and sanction of the admissible claim.
Final Conclusion: The impugned orders were set aside and the rebate claims were restored for reconsideration and verification by the original authority, with the assessee succeeding in the revision to that extent.
Ratio Decidendi: Supplies from the domestic tariff area to a Special Economic Zone are to be treated as exports for rebate purposes, unjust enrichment does not apply to such exports, and substantive rebate cannot be denied solely for curable procedural deficiencies when the export/supply is otherwise established.
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