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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 Mumbai held that Rule 16(2) of the Central Excise Rules does not mandate that remanufactured goods be supplied back to the ...
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 : 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 Hon’ble Apex Court held that even though the goods were found to be different, payment of duty taking comparative value was done with bona fide belief. When entire exercise was revenue neutral (i.e. credit of duty paid on captive consumption was available to the Appellant itself), the Appellant could not have achieved any purpose to evade duty.
Karnataka High Court in the case of M/s TVS Motors Co. Ltd. held that the automobile cess leviable under the automobile cesses rules are governed by the provisions of central excise act and rules made under the act and are in the nature of excise duty and thus, allowable as rebate under Rule 18 of Central Excise Rules,2002.
NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SERVICE TAX: NEGATIVE LIST, DECLARED SERVICES, EXEMPTION AND SERVICE TAX RULES, 1994 – ISSUES AND WAY FORWARD With the Government paving the way for Finance Act, 2015, the rate of Service Tax has been hiked from 12.36% to 14% w.e.f. 1st June 2015. The Government is also proposing to impose another two per […]
The Hon’ble Supreme Court held that since CT-3 certificates were filed before the Department, no clearance could have taken place without the knowledge of the officer as to the ultimate destination of the goods and the fact that they were cleared without payment of duty in terms of the exemption notification, which was specified in the application.
Excess credit reversed by assessee under protest in course of investigation, for which no SCN has been issued, cannot be retained by Department -Refund thereof is not hit by bar of unjust enrichment. Commissioner of Central Excise, Pune-II Vs. Finolex Industries Ltd. [2015 (57) Taxman 153 – Mumbai-CESTAT]
Indirect Tax Revenue (Provisional) Collections Increase From Rs. 36,408 Crore in May 2014 to Rs. 49,993 Crore During May 2015 An Increase of 37.3 % Registered During the Month of May 2015 over the Corresponding Period in the Previous Year; Central Excise Collections Registered an Increase of 84.2%; Customs Collections Registered an Increase of 16% […]
Notification No. 33/2015-Central Excise Central Government, being satisfied that it is necessary in the public interest so to do, hereby exempts the goods mentioned in column (1) of the Table below of the description specified in column (2) of the said Table from the whole of the duty of excise leviable thereon which is specified in the Schedule to the Central Excise Tariff Act, 1985 (5 of 1986), subject to the condition that the manufacturer produces at the time of clearance of the said goods, before the Assistant Commissioner of Central Excise or Deputy Commissioner of Central Excise having jurisdiction
Notification No. 17/2015-Central Excise (N.T.) subject to the conditions that such roofing panels are consumed at the site of manufacture for execution of the project and the manufacturer of such goods has a centralised billing or accounting system in respect of such goods manufactured by different manufacturing units and opts for registering only the premises or office from where such centralised billing or accounting is done.
The Cenvat Credit in respect of inputs may also taken on receipt of the inputs in the premises of the job worker, where in case of goods are sent directly to the job worker on the direction of the manufacturer or the provider of output service.b) Time limit for taking credit on inputs and input services from the present 6 months to one year from the date of invoice.
Tax calendar for the month of June, 2015 Due Date Period Event Form Return under the Central Excise Act, 1944 10-June-15 May -2015 Excise Return by Non SSI Unit ER-1 10-June-15 May -2015 Excise Return by EOUs ER-2 10-June-15 May -2015 Excise Return by Units paying duty more than Rs. 1 Crore (CENVAT + PLA) […]
