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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...
Modern Industrial Enterprises (MIE) and Florida Electrical Industries Ltd. (FIEL) (collectively referred to as ‘the Assessees’ were subject to independent search operations by the Central Excise Authorities on September 22, 2001
The Hon’ble Supreme Court in the case of MDS Switchgear Pvt. Ltd. [2008 (229) ELT 485 (S.C.)], has held that Cenvat credit cannot be denied at the end of the recipients of the goods on the premise that higher duty has been paid by the manufacturer.
Hon’ble Apex Court judgment in the case of Chandrapur Magnet Wire (P) Ltd. Vs. CC, Nagpur [1996 (81) E.L.T. 3 (S.C.)], held that since the Cenvat credit initially taken was reversed without being utilised by the Assessee, it is to be treated as if the Assessee has not taken the Cenvat credit and hence, would be eligible for the exemption benefit under the Exemption Notification.
THREE YEARS RIGOROUS IMPRISONMENT WITH FINE OF RS. 20,000/- TO THEN SUPERINTENDENT OF CENTRAL CUSTOMS & EXCISE IN A BRIBERY CASE The Special Judge for CBI cases, Visakhaptnam has convicted Sri Bhitravarapu Srikrishna, then Superintendent, Customs & Central Excise, Guntur Division, Customs & Central Excise, Brodipet, Guntur in a bribery case U/s.7 & 13(2) r/w. […]
I am directed to say that the post of Joint Secretary (Customs) in the Central Board of Excise & Customs under the Revenue Headquarters is proposed to be filled up from among the eligible officers of IRS (C&CE) cadre. IRS (C&CE) officer in the grade of Commissioner of Customs & Central Excise is eligible for the said post.
The Central Bureau of Investigation has arrested a Superintendent of Central Excise, Khamgaon (Maharashtra) for demanding & accepting a bribe of Rs.one lakh from the complainant.
In the instant case, the Hon’ble CESTAT, Kolkata vide its Order dated April 30, 2013 directed the Ess Dee Aluminium Ltd. (the Appellant) to make pre-deposit of 25% of the Cenvat Credit involved in the case within a period of eight weeks and report compliance on July 15, 2013.
In the instant case, Jubiliant Engineering (the Appellant) was 100% Export Oriented Units (EOU) engaged in manufacturing of valve assemblies falling under the Chapter 8481 of the Central Excise Tariff Act, 1985. Though the Appellant was not required to pay duty on the export goods
In the present case, Tata Chemicals Ltd. (the Appellant) filed eleven Refund claims amounting to Rs. 1,26,78,767/- during the period September 1997 to December 1999. However, the Refund claims were initially rejected by the Adjudicating Authority and the Ld. Commissioner (Appeals).
1 Service tax 1.1 Scope of the term ‘service’ should be restricted [Section 65B(44) of the Finance Act, 1994] Currently, Section 65B (44) of the Finance Act, 1994 (“Finance Act”) defines the term ‘service’ to include ‘any activity carried out by a person for another for consideration’. The scope of the present definition of term […]
