Clean Energy Cess: excise-style levy on coal, lignite and peat extending to imports and requiring registered self-assessed payments. A Clean Energy Cess is levied as an excise duty on gross quantities of coal, lignite and peat raised and dispatched and on imported coal; CENVAT credit is excluded and payment must be made in cash. Clean Energy Cess Rules require registration (or centralised registration for consolidated accounting), monthly self-assessed payment and returns, documentation of removals, manual return filing where electronic filing is incompatible, adjustment of excess payments, and a specified penalty for contraventions. Exemptions include downstream products if cess paid at the raw stage and coal under customary rights in Meghalaya.
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Clean Energy Cess: excise-style levy on coal, lignite and peat extending to imports and requiring registered self-assessed payments.
A Clean Energy Cess is levied as an excise duty on gross quantities of coal, lignite and peat raised and dispatched and on imported coal; CENVAT credit is excluded and payment must be made in cash. Clean Energy Cess Rules require registration (or centralised registration for consolidated accounting), monthly self-assessed payment and returns, documentation of removals, manual return filing where electronic filing is incompatible, adjustment of excess payments, and a specified penalty for contraventions. Exemptions include downstream products if cess paid at the raw stage and coal under customary rights in Meghalaya.
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