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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...
Press Release – Feb 17, 2014 The interim Budget 2014-15 has been presented today, 17th Feb, 2014 by Sh. P. Chidambaram, Finance Minister. As per the Interim Budget speech of the Finance Minister, the economy has been stable since past two years. There has been a decline in the fiscal deficit, the current account deficit […]
Highlights of Interim Union Budget 2014-15 The Hon’ble Finance Minister P. Chidambaram presented the Interim Budget for the fiscal year 2014-15 on Monday, February 17, 2014 to cover expenditure until the Government’s term ends in May, 2014. While presenting the Interim Budget 2014 in Parliament, the Hon’ble Minister proposed no major changes in tax laws. […]
Relief to The Manufacturing Sector; Cars and Scooters to be Cheaper Excise Duty on Mobile Handsets to be Restructured The Union Finance Minister, Shri P. Chidambaram has announced some changes in Indirect Tax Rates. Presenting the Interim Budget 2014-15 here in Parliament today, he said that keeping with the conventions, he does not propose to […]
The Excise Duty on all goods falling under Chapter 84 & 85 of the Schedule to the Central Excise Tariff Act is reduced from 12 percent to 10 percent for the period upto 30.06.20 14. The rates can be reviewed at the time of regular Budget. To give relief to the Automobile Industry, which is registering unprecended negative growth, the excise duty is reduced for the period up to 30.06.2014 as follows:
Provided that nothing contained in this notification shall apply to the goods specified against serial number 296 and 297 of the said Table after the 31st day of March, 201
The Finance Minister has presented the Interim Budget 2014-15 in Lok Sabha today, i.e., 17.02.2014. Certain changes have been made in the effective rates of Customs and Central Excise. To give effect to these changes, the following notifications have been issued:
The general excise duty on all machinery & equipment, appliances etc and parts thereof falling under Chapters 84 and 85 of the Central Excise Tariff has been reduced from 12% to 10%. The existing duty concessions, whether by way of tariff entry or notifications, will continue to be available as before [Sl.No.345 and 346 of the Table of notification No.12/2012-Cental Excise, dated 17.03.2012 as amended by notification No.4/2014- Central Excise, dated 17.02.2014 refers].
In the Budget 2012-13, vide Finance Bill, 2012 as introduced in the Lok Sabha on 16.03.2012, the basic excise duty rate was increased on various lengths of cigarettes by imposing an ad valorem component in addition to the specific duty, through clause 141 of the Finance Bill read with the Seventh Schedule as under:
W.e.f. 1.3.2011, Rule 6(6A) had been inserted in Cenvat Credit Rules, 2004 to allow provision of services without payment of service tax to a unit in Special Economic Zones (SEZ) or to a developer in SEZ for their authorized operations, without requirement of reversal of any Cenvat credit on this account. This will help in tax-free receipt of services by units and developers in SEZs.
Notification No. 03/2014-Central Excise after the serial number 94 and the entries relating thereto, the following serial number and entries shall be inserted, namely:-
