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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...
CCE Vs. Meyer Health Care Pvt. Ltd. & Ors. (Supreme Court)- This Court has already held in the aforementioned decision that effect of making the registration certificate applicable from retrospective date under the trade mark law is based on the principle of deemed equivalence to public user of such mark whereas such deeming fiction cannot be extended to the excise law and that the same is only confined to the provisions of the Trade Marks Act. Admittedly, in the present case, the assignment of the trade mark in question granted in terms of the agreement entered into between the parties was on 6.10.1998, which is subsequent to the date of registration of the case by the Department, which was done on 19.9.1998.
A Delhi court today allowed the CBI to interrogate for three more days in custody a Central Excise Department superintendent and an alleged middleman, arrested in connection with receiving around Rs 40 lakh as bribe for not taking action against two businessmen. Special judge Talwant Singh extended the CBI custody of superintendent Lallan Ojha and alleged middleman Hemant Gandhi after they were produced before him.
First issue involved in the appeal is whether the Cenvat credit available on raw materials and services used for non-excisable goods is admissible to the appellants. Under the Cenvat Credit Rules, input means all goods used in or in relation to the manufacture of final products whether directly or indirectly and whether contained in the final product or not and Cenvat credit can be availed on the duty paid on any input received in the factory of manufacture of the final product.
The Central Bureau of Investigation has registered a case against a Commissioner, Central Excise, Delhi; a Superintendent, Central Excise, New Delhi; a middleman and others for demanding an illegal gratification of Rs. 60 Lakhs from a mobile phone importer.
Notification No. 1/2012-Central Excise – In 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 directs that each of the notifications of the Government of India, in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue), specified in column (2) of the Table hereto annexed shall be further amended, in the manner specified in the corresponding entry in column (3) of the said Table, namely:-
Notification No. 33/2011 – Central Excise (N.T.) In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-rule (1) of rule 3 of the Central Excise Rules, 2002 and rule 3 of the Service Tax Rules, 1994, the Central Board of Excise and Customs hereby appoints the Customs Officers of the rank specified in column (2) of the Table below as the Central Excise Officers of corresponding ranks specified in column (3) of the said Table and invests them with all the powers conferred by or under the Central Excise Act, 1944
Notification No. 32/2011-Central Excise (N.T.) These rules may be called the Central Excise (Fifth Amendment) Rules, 2011. (2) They shall come into force on the 31st day of January, 2012. 2. In the Central Excise Rules, 2002, in rule 12, in sub-rule (1),- (i) the second proviso shall be omitted;
Notification No. 31/2011-Central Excise (N.T.) In exercise of the powers conferred by rule 12 of the Central Excise Rules, 2002 and sub-rule (7) of rule 9 of the CENVAT Credit Rules, 2004, the Central Board of Excise and Customs hereby makes the following amendment in the Notification of the Government of India, Ministry of Finance, Department of Revenue, number 16/2011-Central Excise (N.T.), dated the 18th July, 2011, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i), vide number G.S.R . 541(E), dated 18th July, 2011, namely:-
Notification No. 30/2011-Central Excise (N.T) -Further amendments in the notification , No. 49/2008-Central Excise (N.T.), dated the 24th December, 2008 in the Table,- (i) S. No. 135 and the entries relating thereto shall be omitted; (ii) S. No. 136 and the entries relating thereto shall be omitted; (iii) S. No. 137 and the entries relating thereto shall be omitted;
Notification No. 45/2011 – Central Excise , amendments in the notification of the Government of India in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue), No. 21/2005-Central Excise, dated the 13th May, 2005 which was published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, vide number G.S.R. 294(E) of the same date, namely:-
