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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...
rejected by the application, the date of uploading of the rejected return will not be considered as the date of filing, rather the date of uploading of the successfully filed, return (after the assessee carries out necessary corrections and uploads it again) will be considered as the actual date of filing.
Assessees can file their Central Excise and Service Tax Returns using following offline Excel Utilities/XML Schema by downloading the same from this page. It is advised that the latest Excel Utility may be used every time, for filing Returns, by downloading it from the link given below Click on the respective Excel Utility/XML Schema hyperlink to download. Please refer the detailed Instructions Sheet embedded within the utility before using the same.
Attention is invited to Circular No. 919/09/2010-CX dated 23rd March 2010 prescribing the procedure for electronic filing of Central Excise and Service Tax returns and payment of Central Excise duty and Service Tax by all the assessees who had paid Central Excise duty and Service Tax of Rs. 10 Lakh or more (including payment by utilisation of Cenvat credit) in the previous financial year.
E-filing of Central Excise Returns (ER1,ER-2,ER-3,ER-4,ER-5,ER-6, ER-7 & ER-8) made mandatory for All Assessees wef 01.10.2011 vide Notification No. 21/2011 and No. 22/2011 – Central Excise, both dated 14.09.2011
Reference is invited to Section 35L(b) of the Central Excise Act,1944, made applicable to Service Tax vide Section 83 0f the Finance Act,1994 and Section 130E(b) of the Customs Act, 1962 which stipulates that appeal shall lie to the Supreme Court against a Tribunal order in a case involving determination of any question having a relation to the rate of duty or value of the goods for the purpose of assessment. Your attention is also invited to Circular No 935/25/2010-CX dated 21.09.2010 regarding Measures to streamline the processing of departmental litigation before the Courts and Tribunals.
A case was registered U/s 7 of PC Act 1988 against Supdt. (Audit), Central Excise, Indore for demanding a bribe of Rs. 50,000/- for showing official favour in the matter of accepting the report of Survey Department of Central Excise to clear the service tax of his company. CBI laid a trap and the accused was caught red handed while demanding and accepting a bribe of Rs.50,000/ from the complainant.
Circular No. 955/16/2011-CX, The following amendments have been made in Central Excise Rules, 2002 and CENVAT Credit Rules, 2004: (i) ER-1 Return, filed under Rule 12(1) of the Central Excise Rules, 2002, will have to be electronically filed irrespective of the duty paid in the preceding financial year. (ii) ER-2 Return, filed by 100% EOUs under Rule 17 of the Central Excise Rules, 2002, will be required to be filed electronically irrespective of the duty paid in the preceding financial year.
As per Rule 9A(1) of the CENVAT Credit Rules, 2004, a manufacturer of final products is required to furnish an annual declaration of principal inputs and the input-final product ratio, in respect of each of the final products manufactured or to be manufactured. As per Rule 9A(3) of the CENVAT Credit Rules, 2004, a manufacturer of final products is required to submit a monthly return, in respect of receipt and consumption of each principal inputs with reference to quantity of final products manufactured by him. Now this annual declaration and monthly return are to be submitted electronically as spcified by CBEC in its Notification No. 22/2011 – Central Excise (N.T.), Dated 14-09-2011 .
Dated 14th September, 2011 made it mandatory From 1st October for all Central Excise assessees, [except those availing the exemption under Notification Nos. 49/2003-CE and 50/2003-Central Excise, both dated 10th June 2003 (Uttarakhand and Himachal exemptions)] to file monthly returns electronically. This applies to hundred percent EOUs also. Rule 12 and Rule 17 of the Central Excise Rules, 2002 are amended.
Vide Notification No. 16/2011 Central Excise dated 18.07.2011, CBEC had notified new ER-1 and ER-3 Forms. In which it forgotten to mention, Secondary and Higher Education Cess. Now this is made good and Secondary and Higher Education Cess is included in the forms. In ER-1, in the previous form, in Sl. No. 3, in Details of manufacture, clearance and duty payable, there were no columns for ‘opening balance’ or ‘closing balance’. Notification No. 20/2011 -Central Excise (N.T.)
