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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...
The Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC or the Board) vide Circular No. 185/4/2015-ST dated June 30, 2015 had laid down the procedure for carrying out detailed scrutiny of Service Tax Returns, to be followed by the Revenue with effect from August 1, 2015. Now, on similar line, the Board has now issued instructions/ guidelines on detailed scrutiny of Central Excise Returns vide Circular No. 1004/11/2015-CX dated July 21, 2015 (the Circular)
Mystery of Confusing Notifications on applicability of Excise Duty on Textiles, Mobile phone, Note books, Spectacles, Calculators, Water filters, Sauces and ketchups, Bicycles, etc. The Central Board of Excise and Customs has issued three Central Excise Notifications apparently to clarify when manufacturers can avail exemption or concessional rates of CE duty.
CA Lalit Munoyat For latest update refer comments at the bottom of the article. Notification No. 30/2004-CE dated 09-07-2004 further amended by Notification No. 37/2015-CE dated 21-07-2015 so as to restore the legal position as it stood before the amending notification No. 34/2015-CE dated 17-07-2015. Raw materials levied at NIL rate of duty also allowed […]
Circular No. 1005/12/2015-CX It may, therefore, be noted that the domestically manufactured goods covered under these notifications / entries continue to be exempt from excise duty or subject to concessional rate of excise duty, as the case may be as they were prior to 17th July, 2015.
Notification No. 39/2015–Central Excise Explanation.- For the purposes of this condition, appropriate duty or appropriate additional duty includes nil duty or concessional duty, whether or not read with any relevant exemption notification for the time being in force
Notification No. 38/2015–Central Excise For the purposes of this notification, appropriate duty or appropriate additional duty or appropriate service tax includes nil duty or nil service tax or concessional duty or concessional service tax, whether or not read with any relevant exemption notification for the time being in force.
Notification No. 37/2015–Central Excise Explanation.- For the purposes of this notification, appropriate duty or appropriate additional duty includes nil duty or concessional duty, whether or not read with any relevant exemption notification for the time being in force.
(1) Trade Notice Number 03/2015 regarding Amendment in Notification No. 30/2014-Cental Excise dated 09th July, 2004 Vide Notification No. 34/2015-Central Excise, dated 17th July 2015.
A returns scrutiny process consists of two parts viz. preliminary scrutiny and detailed scrutiny. While the preliminary scrutiny system covers all the returns filed online, detailed scrutiny system covers a few returns selected on the basis of identified risk parameters.
Under Rule-6 (1)- CENVAT credit shall not be allowed used in or in relation to manufacturing of exempted goods and services. Manufacturer or service provider is obliged to maintain separate account of input and input services for various activity. The CENVAT credit Rules made to facilitate assesses to reverse the CENVAT on exempted goods in proportion or adhoc reversal of 7% and 6% to service provider and manufacturer of goods.
