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Excise Duty : India reduced excise duty on petrol and diesel to offset rising global crude prices due to geopolitical tensions. The move aimed t...
Excise Duty : Health Security & National Security (HSNS) Cess Act, 2025 introduces a standalone statutory cess aimed at funding national health ...
Excise Duty : The Court upheld the Tribunal’s view that interest cannot be levied when duty paid is fully creditable to downstream units. It c...
Excise Duty : The Court held that duty-paid items supplied directly to site are not includible when the final plant is immovable. The key takeaw...
Excise Duty : Discover how the Central Excise (Amendment) Act, 2025 revamps tobacco taxation, introducing steep excise duties on cigarettes, che...
Excise Duty : CBI Court in Siliguri sentences former Central Excise Superintendent to four years RI and Rs. 40,000 fine in a bribery case regist...
Excise Duty : A special court imposed five years’ rigorous imprisonment and heavy fines after finding assets far beyond known income. The ruli...
Excise Duty : The FAQs confirm that cess is computed on maximum rated machine speed rather than actual production. This ensures certainty in tax...
Excise Duty : The FAQs clarify how excise duty on chewing tobacco, jarda, and gutkha will be levied based on packing machine capacity rather tha...
Excise Duty : CESTAT issues instructions for e-filing appeals, detailing registration, filing process, documents, fees, and compliance with Proc...
Excise Duty : CESTAT Chennai held that exports made under Notification No. 30/2004-CE and the DEPB scheme cannot be included in exempted turnove...
Excise Duty : The Tribunal held that the show cause notice issued more than three years after the Department became aware of the facts was time-...
Excise Duty : CESTAT held that where the value of goods sent for job work had already been considered for credit reversal purposes, including it...
Excise Duty : CESTAT Chandigarh held that the manufacturer and marketing company could not be treated as related persons under the Central Excis...
Excise Duty : CESTAT Chandigarh held that the manufacturer and marketing company could not be treated as related persons under the Central Excis...
Excise Duty : The Lakshadweep Excise Regulation, 2026 establishes a comprehensive framework for licensing, manufacture, sale, transport, and con...
Excise Duty : Notification No. 25/2026 revises SAED on ATF exports to Rs 9.5 per litre with effect from 1 June 2026; domestic petrol and diesel ...
Excise Duty : Notification No. 24/2026 revises SAED rates on petrol and diesel exports from 1 June 2026, setting duty at Rs 1.5 and Rs 13.5 per ...
Excise Duty : CBIC revised SAED on ATF exports to Rs. 16 per litre effective 16 May 2026, impacting aviation fuel exporters and export duty cost...
Excise Duty : The Ministry of Finance amended the central excise notification issued in March 2026 by revising rates applicable to specified goo...
CESTAT held that it was immaterial if the supplier of the item had wrongly classified the same since, the actual classification and the eligibility for CENVAT credit is dependent on the actual usage of goods and therefore CENVAT credit is admissible to the Appellant.
Field formations under your jurisdiction may be suitably sensitized to forward SLP/Civil Appeal proposals through LIMBS as well as through e-office mode, till the LIMBS application is stabilized and the same is used efficiently by the field formations.
Tata Consumer Products Ltd. Vs Commissioner of Central Tax (CESTAT Bangalore) From a perusal of the impugned Order-in-Appeal, I find that though the appellate authority has taken note of the claim of the appellant as regards the inadvertent/clerical error, but has not accepted on the ground that the same was not brought to the notice […]
MTL Instruments Private Limited Vs Commissioner of G.S.T. and Central Excise (CESTAT Chennai) The definition of input service was amended with effect from 01.04.2011 which has been reproduced in paragraph 5.1 above. The definition contains an exclusion clause wherein the credit availed on Rent-a-Cab Services as well as Outdoor Catering Services has been specifically excluded. […]
Hindustan Coca Cola Beverages Pvt Ltd. Vs Commissioner, Central Excise & GST (CESTAT Delhi) Learned Counsel for the appellant has mentioned that they had purchased a generator set in the year 2004 which was used by them at their Jaipur plant. After 12 years of its use, since the Jaipur plant got closed that the said […]
Yashpal Vs State of U.P. and Another (Allahabad High Court) clause (e) of sub-Section (1) of Section 72 of U.P. Excise Act, 1910 provides that whenever an offence is punishable under this Act, every animal, cart, vessel or other conveyance used in carrying such receptacle or package shall be liable to The power of confiscation […]
Global Adsorbents (P) Limited Vs Commissioner of Central Excise It is undisputed that the appellant is selling activated carbon in bags with its own name pre-printed on them. Thus, if the appellant is selling the goods with its own name on the packets, it is labeling the product. The next question is whether it is […]
Akhilesh Kumar Vs State of U.P. (Allahabad High Court) Question before the court is whether during confiscation proceedings under section 72 of U.P. Excise Act, the Magistrate is empowered to release the vehicle. In case of (Nand vs. State of U.P.) 1997 (1) AWC 41 and (Rajeev Kumar Singh vs. State of U.P. and ors) […]
Varun Beverages Limited Vs Commissioner of Central Excise & Service Tax (CESTAT Delhi) The preliminary objection by the appellant is that a show cause notice (SCN) dated 10 February 2016 was issued by the Department demanding duty short paid by irregularly availing exemption under Notification No. 1/2011-CE along with interest and penalty. The present show […]
Khyati Ispat Private Limited Vs Principal Commissioner (CESTAT Delhi) The facts of the case, in brief, are that M/s Khyati Ispat Pvt. Ltd., Raipur3, is a private limited company engaged in manufacture of Iron and Steel products, such as, angles, channels & joists falling under Chapter 72 of Schedule II to the Central Excise Tariff […]