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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 strict transaction-wise correlation between factory clearances and retail sales was impractical in the je...
Excise Duty : The Tribunal held that invocation of the five-year limitation period requires proof of deliberate suppression or wilful misstateme...
Excise Duty : CESTAT Kolkata held that granules cleared to job workers for conversion into PPCP containers could not be treated as traded goods....
Excise Duty : Tribunal observed that where goods are sold on FOR destination basis, the buyer’s premises may constitute the place of removal. ...
Excise Duty : CESTAT Chennai held that CENVAT credit on outward transportation and insurance services cannot be denied where goods are sold on F...
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...
Excise Duty : Notification No. 21/2026-Central Excise revises the RIC rate on exports of high-speed diesel oil outside India to Nil, effective M...
Excise Duty : Notification No. 20/2026-Central Excise revises the SAED rate on exports of ATF outside India to Rs. 33 per litre, effective May 1...
Excise Duty : Notification No. 19/2026-Central Excise revises the SAED rate on exports of high-speed diesel oil outside India to Rs. 23 per litr...
CESTAT Mumbai dismisses a revenue appeal, confirming that VAT/sales tax subsidies under the Goa scheme are not to be included in the assessable value for central excise duty.
The Delhi High Court has denied a request for a pre-deposit waiver for a CESTAT appeal but granted the petitioner, N.K. Sharma, an extension to pay the remaining amount.
Refund of CENVAT Credit was permissible on input services used in export, even if the exported output service was not taxable during the relevant period.
CESTAT Chandigarh held that CENVAT Credit of input services i.e. insurance and authorized service station cannot be denied as services are availed before 01.04.2011 and used for furtherance of business.
The Supreme Court of India rules that financial hardship is not a valid ground to waive or reduce the mandatory pre-deposit for filing an appeal.
CESTAT Chennai held that CENVAT Credit in respect of service tax paid on input services i.e. Management or Business Consultant’s Service’ and ‘Business Support Service’ is duly eligible. Accordingly, disallowance of credit set aside.
Telangana High Court disposes of excise appeal against Sirpur Paper Mills, citing NCLT order approving resolution plan that extinguished all indirect tax dues.
Supreme Court rules criminal prosecution can proceed despite quashed departmental adjudication, if complaint is based on independent investigation.
CESTAT Delhi rules BHEL is entitled to 6% interest on delayed CENVAT refund, overturning Commissioner (Appeals) decision.
CESTAT Kolkata held that charge of clandestine removal and duty demand thereon merely on the loose sheets and pocket dairy without any corroborative evidence cannot be sustained in the eye of law. Accordingly, appeal allowed.
