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The SEIS is a scheme that provides an incentive to the exporters of services. The incentive under the scheme is provided in the form of duty credit scrips. These duty credit scrips issued by the department are valid for a period of 24 months from the date of issue and are freely transferable.
The foremost purpose of SEIS is to promote and increase the export of notified services from India. This scheme is only of the services provided in the manner as specified in Para 9.51(i) [Mode1- Cross Border Trade] and 9.51(ii) [Mode 2- Consumption Abroad] of FTP 2015-20.
The present rates of reward are 5% and 7% on the net foreign exchange earned by the company (Net free foreign exchange earnings = Gross Earnings in foreign exchange – total expenses/payment/remittances in foreign exchange).
Under SEIS, the received duty credit scrips can be utilized in different ways like for the payment of customs duty, additional customs duty that are specified under sections 3(1), 3(3), and 3(5) of the Customs Tariff Act, 1975 (except for the items listed in Appendix 3A), safeguard Duty, anti-dumping duty, etc. Such scrips cannot be used for the payment of taxes like GST and education cess. To claim the incentive under this scheme, the service exporter must have an active IEC at the time of providing services for which the benefits are claimed.
The notified services under this scheme include legal services, accounting, auditing, and book-keeping services, engineering services, medical and dental services, R&D services on natural sciences, advertising services, management consulting service, technical testing and analysis, tourist guide services, hotel and restaurants (including catering), entertainment services (including theatre, live bands, and circus services, news agency services, educational services, health-related and social services, general construction for building work, installation and assembly work, sporting and other recreational services, and many more. Although, the foreign exchange receipts that are not earned for rendering of notified services would not be taken into consideration for entitlement. Hence, any other sources like donations, receipts of repayments of loans, equity or debt participation, or any other inflow of foreign exchange earnings that are not related to rendering of service, they all would be ineligible.
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