excise duty payable

[Ramakrishnan Seshadri]

Dear Sir,

we kindly request the experts to guide me whether to scrap the 2003 /2004 machines now excise duty has to be paid or not because the depreciation has already been calculated every year. it is almost 12 years over.

Please guide me.

Thanks

S.Ramakrishnan

[KASTURI SETHI]

Used capital goods sold/cleared as scrap will attract Central Excise duty on its transaction value.

[DR.MARIAPPAN GOVINDARAJAN]

Duty will be attracted at narrated by Shri Kasthuri.

AI Summary

Excise duty on scrap: sale of used capital goods attracts duty assessed on transaction value despite depreciation.
Sale or clearance of used capital goods as scrap is a taxable event attracting Central Excise duty measured by the transaction value; depreciation does not exempt such transactions from excise liability.