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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...
According to section 35F of Central Excise Act, 1944 which applies to service tax also, a person desirous of appealing against the order shall, pending the appeal, deposit the duty demanded or penalty levied. It may be noted that right to appeal is neither an absolute right nor an ingredient of natural justice.
COMPOUNDED LEVY SCHEME with reference to the pan masala packing machines (capacity determination and collection of duty) rules, 2008 Introduction Indian taxation system has been split up into direct taxation and indirect taxation. Direct tax is paid by the individual directly to the government whereas indirect tax is paid by the individual indirectly to the […]
If I make this sentence without referring to any supporting reference then probably I would be wrong. But thanks to the Delhi Bench of the Hon’ble Tribunal which has allowed CENVAT credit of input service on the basis of Debit Note raised by the service provider. This is one of the rarest judgments which I recently came across and therefore, I wish to bring this judgment to the notice of the readers to understand the intention of the law makers more clearly.
The Central Bureau of Investigation has arrested a Superintendent of Service Tax, Central Excise, Customs & Service Tax, Nadiad (Gujarat) for demanding and accepting a bribe of Rs. 2000/- from the Complainant. A case was registered on a complaint from partner of a firm who had applied for obtaining of Service Tax Registration Number in […]
It is commonly known that levy of excise duty arises on manufacture and the duty is collected on removal of goods from the factory. However, all manufacturing process does not attract levy of excise duty unless some basic conditions are met.
Whether the option is available to the assessee either to avail the exemption notification or to pay duty on the final products by taking Modvat credit on inputs in terms of Rule 57A of the erstwhile Central Excise Rules, 1944 (“the Excise Rules”)?
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The Designated Court at Kolkata has remanded three days police custody to A M Sahay, Commissioner of Central Excise, Kolkata-II Commissionarate and two private persons in a bribery case yesterday. In this case, the CBI has arrested seven accused i.e. three at Kolkata and four at Mumbai. The Competent Court at Mumbai has given two […]
I am directed to invite attention to the Interim Order No. IO/E/795-802/2013-EX(DB), dated 18-12-2013 of the Principal Bench of CESTAT, New Delhi. Vide para 9 of the said order dated 18-12-2013 the bench observed it is high time for revenue to rise to the occasion and reduce its litigation without burdening the Tribunal to list the matters frequently in cause list to know status of compliance to stay orders.
Government needs funds for various purposes like maintenance of law and order, defence, social & health services etc. Government obtains funds from various sources, out for which one main source is taxation. Taxes are conventionally broadly classified as Direct Taxes and Indirect Taxes.
