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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 : CESTAT remands Kohler India case, stating Supreme Court's Safari Retreats judgment under CGST cannot be mechanically applied to CE...
Excise Duty : Freight and insurance charges are includable in Central Excise assessable value for FOR destination sales where the buyer's premis...
Excise Duty : The Supreme Court upholds CENVAT credit for telecom infrastructure, ruling in favor of telecom operators on towers and shelters....
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 : Govt clarifies tax increase on tobacco products, citing changes in excise duty on cigarettes and GST rules. Revenue funds overall ...
Excise Duty : Supreme Court admits Ecoboard Industries Ltd.'s appeal on excise duty for intermediate products, questioning Tribunal's duty impo...
Excise Duty : CESTAT Allahabad held that finding recorded by Commissioner (A) in earlier round of litigation have attained finality. Accordingly...
Excise Duty : Gujarat High Court held that the services received in respect of setting up the captive wind mill plant are eligible for the Cenva...
Excise Duty : The Court held that electrically operated golf carts were exempt from Infrastructure Cess under the applicable notification. Re-as...
Excise Duty : CESTAT held that valuation under Rule 10A fails where the department cannot prove that goods were manufactured as job work, reaffi...
Excise Duty : The Bombay High Court held that delays caused by genuine technical glitches do not invalidate SVLDRS benefits, distinguishing case...
Excise Duty : New monthly excise duty rates link retail sale price and packing machine speed for chewing tobacco, jarda and gutkha to strengthen...
Excise Duty : The notification supersedes earlier exemptions and caps excise duty at revised rates for a wide range of tobacco products, effecti...
Excise Duty : The notification removes ambiguity by substituting pan masala containing tobacco with gutkha for excise assessment....
Excise Duty : New rules tax chewing tobacco, gutkha and jarda by packing-machine capacity and RSP, mandating declarations, CCTV and upfront duty...
Excise Duty : Chewing tobacco, jarda and gutkha packed by machines are notified for excise duty under a special valuation mechanism in public in...
The Gujarat HC conclusively held that the Respondent ought to have directed the sanctioning Authority to refund the duty of the amount in cash instead of credit in the CENVAT account and for the foregoing reasons, the Petition was allowed to succeed.
CESTAT Mumbai has held that Cenvat credit can be availed on foreign warehouse services received by a company in India for which service tax was paid under reverse charge mechanism. It was held that denial of credit would amount to double taxation.
CESTAT Delhi has allowed Cenvat credit on maintenance charges for common area of a business premises taken on rent by assessee. The charges were related to roads, street lights, drainage, etc., provided beyond the manufacturing premises but were charged based on per square meter of business premises occupied.
Circular No. 1068/1/2019-CX Dated: 10th January, 2019 1. Provision of Appeal The support under the scheme is in the nature of grant and not refund of duty under taxation law. As such there is no requirement for any appellate forum as the decision of the sanctioning authority is final 2. Review of progress of implementation […]
Bombay High Court has held that it was within the discretion of the assessee whether to utilize Cenvat credit at one of its unit or distribute it amongst other units providing output The High Court however dismissed appeal observing that the entire exercise was revenue neutral as distribution of Cenvat credit to various units would result in lesser service tax being paid by them.
The Special Judge, North Goa has convicted Sh. Nilesh Thakur, then Inspector, Central Excise, Goa in a bribery case and sentenced him to undergo three years Simple Imprisonment with fine of Rs. 40,000/-. The Commissioner, GST, Goa has dismissed Sh. Nilesh Thakur, then Inspector from service.
Debit note, even though not specifically indicated in rule 9(1), is an eligible document for availing CENVAT credit since the same is allowed by higher courts.CENVAT credit cannot be disallowed simply due to the reason that the service tax amount is mentioned with pen and is not pre-printed.
An appeal to the High Court is not automatic. The condition precedent for entertaining an appeal is the satisfaction of the High Court of the case involving a substantial question of law.
M/s Honda Motorcycle & Scooter Vs CCE & ST (CESTAT Delhi) Conclusion: Cenvat credit is allowable on service tax paid on rent of infrastructural facilities as common facilities availed by assessee on rent basis were in ‘relation to the manufacture of goods’ and an integral part of the overall activity of manufacturing. . Held: In […]
In a case involving removal of inputs as such, CESTAT Ahmedabad has held that first-in first-out (FIFO) system must be applied and removal of inputs from the old stock of a manufacturer must be considered. t noted that that the quantity removed from time to time was carried forward from the old stock and the stock balance of the input was much more than the quantity cleared.
