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Excise Duty : Health Security & National Security (HSNS) Cess Act, 2025 introduces a standalone statutory cess aimed at funding national health ...
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Excise Duty : CESTAT issues instructions for e-filing appeals, detailing registration, filing process, documents, fees, and compliance with Proc...
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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...
The Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC) has notified the procedure, safeguards, conditions and limitations for claiming refund of unutilised Cenvat credit taken on inputs and input services during the half-year for which it is claimed, for providing the services of renting of a motor vehicle designed to carry passengers on the non-abated value to any person who is not engaged in a similar business, supply of personnel for any purpose or security services or service portion in the execution of a works contract.
India has steadily streamlined its central indirect tax regime over the last 30 years. The law has increasingly become simpler and easier to interpret and administer. Central indirect tax laws in India, at the central level, provide various avenues for resolution of tax disputes/litigations.
However, the whole process of DPC is getting delayed due to deficiency of ACR folders of officers. In this regard, attention is drawn to DOP&T’s OM No,,21011/02/2009-Estt. dated 16.02.2099 which emphasizes on timely completion and maintenance of ACRs within the prescribed time period. The OM also elaborates procedure for appending the No Report Certificate in cases where the ACR is not available
Facilities to be withdrawn and imposition of restrictions.- (1) Where a manufacturer is prima facie found to be knowingly involved in committing the offences specified in para 1, the Chief Commissioner of Central Excise may impose following restrictions on the facilities, namely:-
12AAA. Power to impose restrictions in certain types of cases.— Notwithstanding anything contained in these rules, where the Central Government, having regard to the extent of misuse of CENVAT credit, nature and type of such misuse and such other factors as may be relevant
12CCC. Power to impose restrictions in certain types of cases.— Notwithstanding anything contained in these rules, where the Central Government, having regard to the extent of evasion of duty, nature and type of offences or such other factors as may be relevant, is of the opinion that in order to prevent evasion of, or default in payment of duty of excise,
G.S.R.(E).— In pursuance of rule 12CCC of the Central Excise Rules, 2002, and rule 12AAA of the CENVAT Credit Rules, 2004, the Central Board of Excise and Customs hereby rescinds the notification No. 6/2012- Central Excise (N.T.) dated the 13th March, 2012 published in the Gazette of India,
I am directed to say that a Review DPC for promotion from the grade of Assistant Commissioner to the grade of Deputy Commissioner of Customs and Central Excise is being held for the deferred cases of the DPC held on 18.04.2013, 06.06.2013 and 10.06.2013. However, on scrutiny of the ACR dossiers, deficiency in the dossiers of officers as per list enclosed has been observed.
The Board is in the process of finalizing a proposal for holding DPC for ad-hoc promotion to the grade of Commissioner for the vacancy year 2013-14 and Joint Commissioner for the vacancy year 2014-15.
Where the CENVAT credit has been taken [and] utilized wrongly or has been erroneously refunded, the same along interest shall be recovered from manufacturer or the provider of the output service and the provisions of sections 11A and [11AA] of the Excise Act or sections 73 and 75 of the Finance Act, shall apply mutatis mutandis for effecting such recoveries.
