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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 Hon’ble High Court of Gujarat relying upon the decision in case of Nizam Sugar Factory Vs. Collector of Central Excise [2006 (197) ELT 465 (SC)], allowed the appeal in favour of the Respondent and held that where all the relevant facts were in the knowledge of authorities when first SCN was issued, while issuing second and third SCN’s on same and similar facts and on the basis of same inspection made on September 16, 1996, Department cannot allege suppression of facts by Respondent.
The nearest time in terms of Rule 7 of Excise Valuation Rules, could be the time subsequent to the time and date of clearance/removal of the goods under assessment from the factory to depots when the transaction value at or about the same time is not available
Government has exempted the Capital goods specified in the First schedule and Second Schedule to the Excise Tariff Act, when cleared against a Status Holder Incentive Scheme duty credit scrip issued to a Status Holder by the Regional Authority in accordance with paragraph 3.16 of the Foreign Trade Policy from:
The Hon’ble Prime Minister, in order to encourage Companies to manufacture their products in India has launched initiative named ‘Make in India’ on September 25, 2014. This had not only helped Indian manufacturers to enhance their capital base as there are proposed relaxations in the policy of Foreign Direct Investment but also produce their products […]
Vide Notification No. 6/2015-CE(NT) dated March 1, 2015, Explanation-I to Rule 6(1) of the Credit Rules have been inserted to state that w.e.f March 1, 2015, for the purpose of this Rule, exempted goods and final products shall include non-excisable goods cleared for a consideration from the factory:
Over the years, Rule 14 of the Credit Rules has always been the matter of concern/ litigation for both the Revenue and the Assessee. Even the Courts have taken divergent views while interpreting the provisions of Rule 14 of the Credit Rules. Before we proceed to understand the changes made in Rule 14 of the […]
Till September 1, 2014, there was no time limit prescribed under the Credit Rules for availment of Cenvat credit. Various Courts have held that in the absence of any time limit prescribed under the Credit Rules, Cenvat credit can be taken at any time even in some cases, Assessees have been allowed to avail Cenvat […]
In the Union Budget, 2015 presented by the Hon’ble Finance Minister Shri Arun Jaitley on February 28, 2015, Saturday, numerous changes in the Indirect taxes, have been introduced to combat/ surpass the challenges encountered in the way of progress of continued growth and to pave way for smooth implementation of Goods and Services tax (GST). […]
Provided further that the said scrip has not been issued in violation of the condition contained in the sub-paragraph (5) of paragraph 2 of notification No. 101 of 2009 – Customs, dated the 11th September, 2009 or sub-paragraph (4) of paragraph 2 of notification No. 102 of 2009 – Customs, dated the 11th September, 2009 or the second proviso to sub-paragraph (1) of paragraph 2 of notification No. 05 of 2013 – Customs, dated the 18th February, 2013 or sub- paragraph (3) of paragraph 2 of notification No. 22 of 2013 – Customs, dated the 18th April, 2013 or first proviso to sub-paragraph
The Central Government vide Notification No. 18/ 2015 – Central Excise dated April 1, 2015 has exempted the goods specified in the First Schedule and the Second Schedule to the Excise Tariff Act, when cleared against a Post Export EPCG duty credit scrip issued by the Regional Authority in accordance with Paragraph 5.12 of the Foreign Trade Policy 2015-2020, which provides for duty remission in proportion to export obligation fulfilled from:
