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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...
We conducted the Performance Audit to seek an assurance whether the objectives of Automation of Central Excise and Service Tax (ACES) framed by the department have been achieved. We also examined the extent of utilisation of ACES in the field formations of the Board. The Performance Audit was conducted in 40 selected Commissionerates apart from the office of the Directorate General of Systems and Data Management.
F. No. 390/CESTAT/69/2014-JC During the recent past there have been certain decisions of the CESTAT wherein cost was imposed either on department or on the adjudicating officer / appellate officers. The cost so imposed was ordered to be paid to the assesse or to the Registry of the Tribunal.
In the case of Advance Netways Marketing Pvt. Ltd. Vs. CCE, Hon’ble Bombay High Court denied to interfere in the order of CESTAT who directed to deposit 50 % of total duty payable and 10 % out of penalty payable.
Date for payment of Central Excise duty and Service Tax for November 2015 in the Union Territory of Puducherry (except Mahe & Yanam) extended to 20th December 2015 while the date of filing of the Central Excise return for November 2015 extended to 31st December 2015. For all Central Excise and Service Tax assessees in […]
F. No. 390/Misc./67/2014-JC The matter relating to the large number of appeals pending/ filed in the CESTAT/ High Court has been a matter of concern in this regard it has been decided to withdraw cases pending in High Court/ CESTAT, where Supreme Court has decided on an identical matter and the decision has been accepted by the Department.
Date for payment of Central Excise duty for November 2015 in the Union Territory of Puducherry (except Mahe & Yanam) extended to 20th December 2015 vide Notification No. 26/2015-Central Excise (N.T.) dated the 18th December, 2015.
Order No. 02/2015-Central Excise – CBEC extends the date of submission of, Form ER-1, ER-2, ER-6 for the clearances in the month of November, 2015 from 10th of December, 2015 to 31st of December, 2015 and Form ER-4(Annual Financial Information Statement) from 30th of November, 2015 to 31st of December, 2015, for the assessees in the Union Territory of Puducherry (except Yanam and Mahe) due to natural calamity of rains and flood.
(1) The threshold limit before which appeals are not to be filed by the department in CESTAT (Tribunal) and High Courts has been raised to Rs 10 lakhs and Rs 15 lakhs respectively. (2) Withdrawal of all cases in High Court and CESTAT where there is precedent Supreme Court decision, against which no review contemplated.
CBEC increase monetary limits for filing appeals by Department before CESTAT to Rs. 10 Lakh from Earlier 5 Lakh and to Rs. 15 Lakh for Appeal before High Court from Earlier Limit of Rs. 10 Lakh. Limit of Rs. 25 Lakh for Filing Appeal before Supreme Court remains unchanged.
Office Order No. 24/2015 Instances have been noticed wherein the Principal Commissioners a-e acting as Chief Commissioner of their respective Zones as well as the members of the Committee of the Commissioners formed for the purpose of reviewing the orders of the Commissioner (Appeals) within their jurisdiction under Section 35B(2) of the Central Excise Act, 1944, Section 85(2A) of the Finance Act, 1994 and Section 129A(2) of the Customs Act, 1962.
