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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...
G.S.R (E).- In exercise of the powers conferred by section 37A of the Central Excise Act, 1944 (1 of 1944), the Central Government hereby delegates the powers of the Central Board of Excise and Customs under rule 3 of the Central Excise Rules, 2002, to the Principal Chief Commissioner of Central Excise or the Chief Commissioner of Central Excise, to specify within his jurisdiction
G.S.R (E) In exercise of the powers conferred by clause (b) of section 2 of the Central Excise Act, 1944 (1 of 1944) read with sub-rule (1) of rule 3 of the Central Excise Rules, 2002, the Central Board of Excise and Customs hereby makes the following further amendments in the notifications of the Government of India in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue)
Cadbury India Ltd. Vs. Commissioner of Central Excise-Indore [(2014) 48 taxmann.com 78 (New Delhi – CESTAT)] Cadbury India Limited (“the Appellant”) filed an appeal against the order of the Commissioner (Appeals) wherein the learned Commissioner held that the cheque discounting charges would be includible in the assessable value of the goods. Being aggrieved, the Appellant […]
Commissioner of Central Excise and Customs Vs. Anita Synthetics Private Limited [2014 (9) TMI 368 – Gujarat High Court] Anita Synthetics Private Limited (The Respondent) is a 100% EOU and made clearance of goods to another 100% EOU. Such clearance is treated as a deemed export as mentioned in the EXIM Policy. Therefore, the Respondent […]
Commissioner of Central Excise Vs. Chandresh C. Shah [(2014) 48 taxmann. com 236 (Gujarat)] In the instant case, the Revenue issued a Show Cause Notice (SCN) against Doshion Ltd. (the Company) for recovery of wrongly availed Cenvat credit along with interest and penalty thereon. Further, personal penalty was also imposed against authorized signatory/ managers of […]
Provided that the jurisdiction of the Principal Commissioner or the Commissioner of Central Excise specified in Table-III(A) or Table-III(B) under whose jurisdiction there is an assessee who has obtained a centralised registration for more than one premises in terms of the notification issued under rule 9 of Central Excise Rules, 2002, shall also extend to the jurisdiction of such other Principal Commissioner or Commissioner of Central Excise specified in Table-III(A)
The Finance Act (No.2), 2014 has been enacted on 06.08.2014. Section 35F of the Central Excise Act, 1944 and Section 129E of the Customs Act, 1962 have been substituted with new sections to prescribe mandatory pre-deposit as a percentage of the duty demanded where duty demanded is in dispute or where duty demanded and penalty levied are in dispute. Where penalty alone is in dispute, the pre-deposit shall be calculated on the penalty imposed.
Please find enclosed a press release issued by Central Board of Excise and Customs giving details of indirect tax revenue (provisional) collections during April-August 2014, along with growth rate over previous year.
Amalgamated Company would be eligible to avail the Cenvat Credit lying in the books of Amalgamating Company when all the facts were intimated to the Department, even though it isn’t in the prescribed form IPF Vikram India Ltd. Vs. Commissioner of Central Excise, Ludhiana [(2014) 47 taxmann.com 362 (New Delhi – CESTAT)]
The Hon’ble High Court held that once order to pay duty was set aside, the refund is automatic. Refusal of refund on the basis that the exigibility of tax is yet to be adjudicated was not a valid reason. Commissioner of Central Excise, Bangalore-III Vs. Multiplex Fertilizers (P.) Ltd. [(2014) 47 taxmann.com 359 (High Court of Karnataka)]
