Amends Cenvat Credit Rules, 2004 - 18/2012 - Central Excise - Non Tariff

Cenvat credit amendments revise eligibility, refund calculation and transfer mechanisms for manufacturers and service providers.

Amendments refine eligible capital goods and inputs, permit providers of output services to take credit upon delivery with documentary proof, prescribe recovery where capital goods on which credit was taken are removed by applying specified straight-line quarterly percentage reductions (with a floor equal to duty on transaction value), restate a formula-based refund for export without payment of duty linking export turnover to net CENVAT credit, and enable intra-entity transfer of unutilised additional-duty CENVAT credit between registered premises via transfer challan with separate monthly returns.