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....nput credit of CENVAT<br> Query (Issue) Started By: - sridhar oruganti Dated:- 8-2-2012 Last Reply Date:- 15-2-2012 Service Tax<br>Got 2 Replies<br>Service Tax<br>Dear sir, Our core business in trading and servicing of medical equipments. We received input credit by way of couriers charges, clearing charges paid for import equipment , AMC & labour charges involved in trading the medical equipment....

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....s. Our main issue is that we are not segregating the cost on the basis of tragding and service separately. can we take the service tax paid on account of above mentioned as input credit even if we are unable to distinguish between the trading / service. thanks and regards sridhar oruganti Reply By Balasubramanian K: The Reply: An explanation was added on 01.04.2011 to the definition of exempt....

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....ed service to clarify that trading shall be treated as exempted service. Hence, you can avail only proportionate credit as provided in CCR However, only actual margin or 10% of sales value, which ever is higher is to be considered for valuation. Reply By vijay kumar: The Reply: Dear Sir, as per your query, you are providing both taxable and exempted services and are availing cenvat facility, wi....

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....thout maintaining separate accounts. In such a case, you have to follow Rule 6(3) according to which you have two options (in your case) - pay 5% of the value of tradeing service OR reverse proportionate credit as detailed under sub-rule 3(A) thereof. Regards-Vijay Kumar.<br> Discussion Forum - Knowledge Sharing ....