In a great respite for the power sector companies amid slowing growth rate, the Finance Ministry has come up with a new duty structure which confirmed that Seven Ultra Mega Power Projects and 106 mega power projects will be exempted from the payment of higher duty for importing equipments, though it has suggested an effective duty of over 22%, including education cess.
The ministry notified that the UMPPs, mega power projects and expansion of existing mega projects which had received certificate of approval from the Power Ministry till July 19, 2012 will be relieved from the new levy. About 111 mega projects with permanent certificate and two with provisional ones are included in the exemption list, while three months have been provided to provisional approval holders for converting their status to permanent. It also reaffirmed that the all these mega projects have to comply with the additional power capacity requirements up to the end of 12th five year plan.
Earlier, when there was not enough capacity for ultra mega power projects, power equipment import for projects with capacity of more than 1,000 MW were exempted from basic Customs duty while projects with capacity of less than 1,000 MW were charged with basic Customs duty of 5%. Power producers such as NTPC and Tata Power have claimed that the imposition of the Customs duty will increase the project cost considerably.
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