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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 Delhi held that works contract services used for repair and maintenance of existing plant and machinery qualify as input se...
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 : 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...
Handicrafts, other than the handicrafts falling under heading 7113 of the said Schedule to the said Act.
First clearances of the articles of jewellery or parts of articles of jewellery or both for home consumption, other than articles of silver jewellery but inclusive of articles of silver jewellery studded with diamond, ruby, emerald or sapphire, falling under chapter heading 7113 of the First Schedule upto an aggregate value not exceeding ten crore rupees made on or after the 1st day of April in any financial year, from the whole of the duty of excise specified thereon in the First Schedule :
Central Government, being satisfied that it is necessary in the public interest so to do, hereby exempts articles of jewellery manufactured,-(i) from jewellery provided by a retail customer; or (ii) by mounting of precious stones provided by a retail customer,
An article of jewellery or part of article of jewellery or both, produced or manufactured from an alloy (including a sintered mixture and an inter-metallic compound) containing precious metal may be treated as an article of jewellery or part of article of jewellery or both of a precious metal, if any one precious metal constitutes as much as 2% by weight of the article of jewellery or part of article of jewellery or both (excluding the weight of the precious or semi-precious stones, mounted or set), in accordance to the following :
As you are aware, in order to reduce litigation, Government has come out with an Indirect Tax Dispute Resolution Scheme, 2016 in this year’s Budget. The scheme provides an opportunity to an assessee whose cases are pending before Commissioner (Appeals), to pay the duty, interest and penalty equivalent to 25% of penalty imposed and file a declaration, consequent to which the proceedings would be closed and immunity from prosecution granted except in certain cases.
Representations have been received from the members of the trade requesting clarification regarding Glyphosate Isopropyl amine (Glyphosate 360 Acid) which was placed under the category of Plant Growth Retardant in the annexure to the circular at Table 1 in the opinion received from IARI.
During receipt of Appeal/application in Central Registry, it has been noticed that the DD/PO, submitted towards registration fee, has only few days of validity left on the day of its submission. Keeping above in view, all concerned are requested to ensure that DD/PO submitted towards appeal/application fee must be valid at least for 60 days on the date of submission.
Representations have been received from the trade requesting for clarification on whether a manufacturer who opts to authenticate invoices with digital signature can simultaneously also authenticate invoices by manual signature.
Representations have been received from the members of the trade requesting clarification regarding classification of tamarind kernel powder. It has been stated in these representations that there is divergence in the field regarding practice of classification of tamarind kernel powder
Whether the option to reverse CENVAT credit, under Rule 6(3) (ii) of the CENVAT credit rules, 2004 (CCR) be denied merely on the ground that no intimation was given to the department?
