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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...
An Exporter can procure Inputs without payment of excise duty under Notification No. 34/2001. This Rule, Central Excise (Removal of Goods at Concessional Rate of Duty for Manufacture of Excisable Goods) Rules, 2001 came into force with effect from 21/06/2001.
The principal notification number 30/2012-Central Excise, dated the 9th July, 2012 was published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i), vide number G.S.R. 542 (E), dated the 9th July, 2012 and was last amended by notification No.17/2013-Central Excise dated the 16th May,2013 vide number G.S.R. 315(E) dated the 16th May,2013.
Reference has been received regarding the application of the threshold limit prescribed vide Instruction ibid to cases where either redemption fine alone is in dispute or both redemption fine and penalty are in dispute. For example, in one case the Tribunal confirmed the duty but set aside the penalty of Rs. 5 lakhs and redemption fine of Rs. 15 lakhs imposed by the adjudicating authority.
Cenvat Credit has been a highly sensitive issue since its inception. The assessees always attempt to avail credit of every possible input / capital goods / input service which has suffered the incidence of duty/tax by liberally interpreting their definitions.
n exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 5A of the Central Excise Act, 1944 (1 of 1944), the Central Government, on being satisfied that it is necessary in the public interest so to do, hereby makes the following further amendments in the notification of the Government of India in the Ministry of Finance.
I am directed to say that the eleven posts at the level of Under Secretary/ ten posts at the level of Senior Technical Officer/ fourteen posts at the level of Technical Officer/ two posts of Senior Analysts in CBEC under the Revenue Headquarters which are lying vacant are proposed to be filled up from amongst the suitable officers of IRS (C&CE) cadre.
From 1.4.2012 , the definition of capital good has been extended to cover all motor vehicles ( other than those covered under the specified tariff heading) for all the category of service provider.
Consequent to the amendment in Section 129C(4) of the Customs Act 1962, Section 350(3) of the Central Excise Act 1944 and corresponding changes in provisions of the Finance Act 1994 by virtue of Section 86(7) thereof, the Single Member Jurisdiction stands enhanced to Rs. 50 Lacs.
CBI ARRESTS AN INSPECTOR OF CENTRAL EXCISE IN A BRIBERY CASE The Central Bureau of Investigation has arrested an Inspector of Central excise, Goa for demanding & accepting a bribe of Rs. 2700/- from the Complainant. A case was registered on 29.5.2013 against the Inspector, Central Excise, Bicholim, Goa on the basis of a complaint. […]
With this amendment, the authorities competent to write-off the arrears of Central Excise and the Commissioner of Service Tax are also delegated powers to write-off the arrears of Service Tax as well. Consequently, the constitution of the Committees for examining the proposals for write-off of irrecoverable arrears and recommending deserving cases to the authority competent to order such write-off, also requires modification.
