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Unused CENVAT Credit does not incur any interest liability

The CESTAT, Kolkata in M/s. National Aluminium Company Limited v. Commissioner of Central Excise & Service Tax held that the amendment in Rule 14 of the CENVAT Credit Rules, 2004 which previously read as ‘taken or utilized’ but was changed to ‘taken and utilized’, clearly indicated the intention of the legislature not to impose interest where the credit had been taken but not utilized.