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Issues: Whether, while computing refund under Rule 5 of the Cenvat Credit Rules, 2004, the amount received towards export services during the relevant period could be included again in total turnover, thereby affecting the refund amount.
Analysis: The export turnover was undisputed, as was the net CENVAT credit. The dispute related only to the denominator used for the refund formula. The Tribunal found that the correct total turnover was Rs. 22,71,89,438/-, and that the figure of export turnover had already included receipts for invoices raised before the relevant period but paid during the relevant period. Adding the same component again in the total turnover would amount to double counting and would wrongly reduce the eligible refund. On that basis, the refund had to be recomputed in accordance with the prescribed formula under the refund notification.
Conclusion: The refund computation made by the lower authorities was incorrect, and the matter required recalculation of the eligible refund on the correct turnover figure, in favour of the assessee.
Final Conclusion: The appeal succeeded, and the assessee was held entitled to recalculation and grant of the balance refund with interest.
Ratio Decidendi: For refund under Rule 5, the same export receipt cannot be counted twice in the turnover computation, and the refund must be calculated on the correct, non-duplicative total turnover.