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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...
Article Covers Amendment in Central Excise Duty Provisions vide Budget 2015-16 as presented by Union Finance Minister Mr. Arun Jaitley on 28.02.2015. It covers the changes
Recently, Our Finance Minister, Arun Jaitley has increased the rate of excise duty from 12.36% (Including Education Cess and SHE Cess) to 12.5% (without any Education Cess and SHE Cess) for most of the products. In addition to this, amendments have also been made in the exemption notification no. 12/2012-CE dated 17.03.2012.
The Budget 2015 has made amendments that that seeks to simplify the procedural aspects and put an end to the flimsy issues that have led to litigation in the past. One such issue that was frequently disputed by the revenue authorities was the availment of cenvat credit on the inputs/capital goods directly sent to a job worker without their being first brought to the premises of the manufacturer or provider of output service.
CENTRAL EXCISE Rate of excise duty Education Cess and Secondary & Higher Education Cess leviable on excisable goods fully exempted. Further, standard ad valorem rate of excise duty increased from 12% to 12.5%. Amendments in the Central Excise Act, 1944 1. Section 11A proposed to be amended to provide as follows: (i) category of cases […]
The Central Government will impose a Swachh Bharat Cess on all or certain taxable services at a rate of 2% from a date to be notified. The Finance Minister Shri Arun Jaitley announced in his Budget Speech that the proceeds from this Cess would be utilized for Swachh Bharat initiatives. In a related development, the […]
In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-clause (iii) of clause (c) of section 23A of the Central Excise Act, 1944 (1 of 1944), the Central Government hereby specifies resident firm as class of persons for the purposes of the said sub-clause
In pursuance of rule 12CCC of the Central Excise Rules, 2002 and rule 12AAA of the CENVAT Credit Rules, 2004, the Central Government hereby makes the following amendments in the notification of the Government of India in the Ministry of Finance
Provided that it shall be sufficient to provide a letter of undertaking by a manufacturer against whom no show cause notice has been issued under sub-sections (4) or (5) of section 11A of Central Excise Act, 1944 or where no action is proposed under any notification issued in pursuance of rule 12CCC of Central Excise Rules, 2002 or rule 12AAA of CENVAT Credit Rules, 2004.
Where the return is submitted under sub-rule (3) by the assessee after the due date as mentioned in that sub-rule, the assessee shall pay to the credit of the Central Government, an amount calculated at the rate of one hundred rupees per day subject to a maximum of twenty thousand rupees for the period of delay in submission of each return.
Provided that if the applicant makes an application for extension of time beyond the period of three months, the jurisdictional authority on the basis of the reasons given by the applicant and upon hearing the applicant in person, grant further time of one month for migration to the PAN based registration
