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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 : Punjab and Haryana HC allowed CENVAT credit on GP sheets, coils and aluminium sections used in air humidifier ducts, setting aside...
Excise Duty : CESTAT upheld MODVAT credit on DG set components used for electricity generation, affirming the Commissioner (Appeals) and dismiss...
Excise Duty : Gujarat HC quashed a Central Excise show cause notice, holding the Commissioner lacked jurisdiction to question the exemption elig...
Excise Duty : CESTAT Mumbai upheld denial of interest on a pre-deposit refund, holding the unamended Section 35FF applied as the deposit was mad...
Excise Duty : CESTAT Kolkata sets aside service tax demand on whole-time directors' remuneration under RCM, holding it as salary under an employ...
Excise Duty : Notification No. 39/2026 raises Special Additional Excise Duty on Aviation Turbine Fuel from ₹7.5 to ₹14.5 per litre with effe...
Excise Duty : Notification No. 38/2026 revises Special Additional Excise Duty on petrol to ₹2.5/litre and diesel to ₹15.5/litre from 16 July...
Excise Duty : Notification No. 37/2026 revises the SAED rate on ATF exports outside India to Rs. 7.5 per litre. The revised rate takes effect fr...
Excise Duty : Notification No. 36/2026 revises SAED rates on petrol and diesel exports outside India to Rs. 4 and Rs. 8.5 per litre. The revised...
Excise Duty : Notification No. 35/2026 extends the Road and Infrastructure Cess exemption on petrol and diesel exports by Public Sector Oil Comp...
The Hon’ble Supreme Court in the case of M/s Escorts Ltd. held that the test of marketability fairly satisfies when it is shown that the product is commercially known and being capable of bought and sold. The same not being actually sold is totally irrelevant.
Hon’ble Supreme court in the case of B.P.L. Limited Vs. CCE held that the benefit of exemption notification is available only when the conditions of notification are strictly met by the assessee and no benefit can be allowed by taking liberal view of any condition.
The appellant is engaged in the manufacture of motorcycle and procures the service of advertising agency for the purpose of advertising their final product. They pay the value of the services to the advertising agency along with the amount of Service Tax leviable thereon.
In the case of Commissioner of Central Excise V/s. M/S. Detergents India Ltd., Supreme Court has held that in case of related party transactions, proviso (iii) of Section 4(1)(a) will not be applicable when there is no arrangement between Shaw the related parties to depress a price which is otherwise at arm’s length.
The Hon’ble Supreme court in the case of M/s Dharampal Satyapal Ltd. held that the passing of recovery order without issuance of show cause notice is against the principles of law and thus, the proceedings initiated has no validity.
Whether the CESTAT is empowered to grant or extend Stay of recovery of demand beyond 365 days from the date when the Stay Order was initially passed, notwithstanding that the delay in disposal of the appeal was not attributable to an assessee?
Reliance in this connection can be placed on the decision of Hon’ble CESTAT Mumbai in case of M/s Mercedes Benz India (P) Ltd vs CCEx [Appeal No E/85725/13-Mum] pronounced on 16-07-2015 wherein the appellant is a manufacturer of motor vehicle as well as engaged in trading of goods.
In the case of The Commissioner Customs & Central Excise V/s M/s. Panyam Cements & Minerals Industries Ltd. it was held that invoking Section 11A is not mandatory for recovering the wrong refund granted.
In the case of The CC&CE V/s M/s. Panyam Cements & Minerals Industries Ltd., Kurnool, it was held by Andhra Pradesh High Court that invoking Section 11A is mandatory for recovering the refund granted pursuant to the adjudication order passed under section 11B which subsequently declared as unsustainable
M/s. ITC Limited Vs. CESTAT, Bangalore (Andhra Pradesh High Court) Larger Bench of Supreme Court had categorically held that any duty paid under mistake of law can be recovered only by resort to the provisions of Section 11B of the Act.
