central excise tariff

Entry 84 of the Union List of the Schedule VII read with clause 1 of Article 246 of the Constitution of India empowers Central Government with exclusive power to make laws in respect of Duties of excise on goods manufactured or produced in India except alcoholic liquors for human consumption, opium, Indian hemp and other narcotic drugs and narcotics etc., Thus, the Central Government does not have power to levy Central Excise duty on Alcoholic liquors. Full Article

Whereas the Central Government is satisfied that according to a practice that was generally prevalent regarding levy of duty of excise (including non-levy thereof) under section 3 of the Central Excise Act, 1944 (1 of 1944), the duty of excise on goods falling under Chapter 69 and heading numbers 94.01, 94.02 and 94.03 of Schedule to the Central Excise Tariff Act, 1985 Full Article

The Central Excise duty is leviable on the process of “manufacture”. Any process that brings a new article into existence with different name, character and use is known as manufacturing activity. For levying duty on any article it must satisfy 2 basic conditions that it must be “goods” and should have come into existence as a result of “manufacture”. Full Article

SUMMARY OF CASE LAW The definition of “input” brings within its fold, inputs used for generation of electricity or steam, provided such electricity or steam is used within the factory of production for manufacture of final products or for any other purpose. Full Article

The Government has been concerned about the impact of the global financial crisis on the Indian economy and a couple of steps have been taken to deal with this problem.   On the monetary side, the RBI has sought to pump in sufficient liquidity into the banking system to enable banks to meet the requirements [...] Full Article