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Excise Duty Cut on Petrol and Diesel: A Bold Governance Move Amid War

Excise Duty : India reduced excise duty on petrol and diesel to offset rising global crude prices due to geopolitical tensions. The move aimed t...

March 27, 2026 3657 Views 0 comment Print

Notes on Health Security se National Security (HSsNS) Cess Act, 2025

Excise Duty : Health Security & National Security (HSNS) Cess Act, 2025 introduces a standalone statutory cess aimed at funding national health ...

January 18, 2026 3156 Views 1 comment Print

Interest on Excise Duty Not Payable in Revenue-Neutral Situations: Calcutta HC

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...

January 16, 2026 729 Views 0 comment Print

Bought-Out Items Excluded from Excise Value for CKD Plant Supplies: SC

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...

December 17, 2025 585 Views 0 comment Print

Central Excise Act 2025: Reshapes Tobacco Taxation Landscape

Excise Duty : Discover how the Central Excise (Amendment) Act, 2025 revamps tobacco taxation, introducing steep excise duties on cigarettes, che...

December 17, 2025 20991 Views 2 comments Print


Latest News


CBI Court Sentences Ex-Central Excise Officer

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...

February 28, 2026 3529 Views 0 comment Print

Central Excise and Service Tax Inspector Jailed for Disproportionate Assets

Excise Duty : A special court imposed five years’ rigorous imprisonment and heavy fines after finding assets far beyond known income. The ruli...

January 7, 2026 537 Views 0 comment Print

FAQs for Health Security se National Security (HSNS) Cess Act, 2026 & HSNS Cess Rules, 2026

Excise Duty : The FAQs confirm that cess is computed on maximum rated machine speed rather than actual production. This ensures certainty in tax...

January 5, 2026 3342 Views 0 comment Print

FAQs on Machine-Based levy in case of Chewing Tobacco, Jarda Scented Tobacco & Gutkha

Excise Duty : The FAQs clarify how excise duty on chewing tobacco, jarda, and gutkha will be levied based on packing machine capacity rather tha...

January 4, 2026 1908 Views 0 comment Print

CESTAT Guidelines for Online Filing of Appeals

Excise Duty : CESTAT issues instructions for e-filing appeals, detailing registration, filing process, documents, fees, and compliance with Proc...

October 1, 2025 3600 Views 0 comment Print


Latest Judiciary


CESTAT Allows CENVAT Credit as Rule 16 Not Requires Goods to Be Returned to Same Buyer

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 ...

June 10, 2026 57 Views 0 comment Print

CENVAT Credit Cannot Be Denied for Plant Maintenance Services Misclassified as Civil Construction: CESTAT Delhi

Excise Duty : CESTAT Delhi held that works contract services used for repair and maintenance of existing plant and machinery qualify as input se...

June 9, 2026 60 Views 0 comment Print

CENVAT Credit Demand Set Aside as Export Turnover Cannot Be Included in Exempted Turnover

Excise Duty : CESTAT Chennai held that exports made under Notification No. 30/2004-CE and the DEPB scheme cannot be included in exempted turnove...

June 8, 2026 90 Views 0 comment Print

Excise Penalty Quashed as Duty and Interest Were Paid Before Show Cause Notice

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-...

June 7, 2026 96 Views 0 comment Print

CESTAT Allows Appeal as Export Turnover Cannot Be Added for Rule 6 Credit Reversal

Excise Duty : CESTAT held that where the value of goods sent for job work had already been considered for credit reversal purposes, including it...

June 5, 2026 324 Views 0 comment Print


Latest Notifications


Lakshadweep Introduces New Excise Law to Regulate Liquor Trade and Consumption

Excise Duty : The Lakshadweep Excise Regulation, 2026 establishes a comprehensive framework for licensing, manufacture, sale, transport, and con...

June 6, 2026 225 Views 0 comment Print

Govt Revises ATF Export Duty Rate From 1 June 2026

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 ...

May 30, 2026 186 Views 0 comment Print

Govt Revises SAED Rates on Petrol and Diesel Exports WEF 1st June 2026

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 ...

May 30, 2026 213 Views 0 comment Print

Govt Raises SAED on ATF Exports to Rs. 16 per Litre from 16 May 2026

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...

May 15, 2026 336 Views 0 comment Print

SAED on Petrol and Diesel Exports Revised from 16 May 2026

Excise Duty : The Ministry of Finance amended the central excise notification issued in March 2026 by revising rates applicable to specified goo...

May 15, 2026 483 Views 0 comment Print


Small scale pharmaceutical industry sought PM’s help to remove anomalies created by MRP based excise duty

January 3, 2009 564 Views 0 comment Print

NEW DELHI: The small scale pharmaceutical industry has sought Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s help to remove anomalies created by maximum retail price (MRP)-based excise duty system for medicines.The system puts small units at a disadvantage by squeezing their margins as compared to big pharmaceutical companies based in excise-free zones. The government has been levying excise […]

Commissioner of Customs & Central Excise Versus Hongo India(P) Ltd. & Anr. (Supreme Court)

December 31, 2008 1140 Views 0 comment Print

A short question which arises for determination in this Special Leave Petition is: whether the High Court was entitled to condone the delay of 16 days in filing the Reference Application by the Commissioner under Section 35H(1) of the Central Excise Act, 1944?

Notification No. 50/2008-Central Excise (N.T.); Dated: 31.12.2008

December 31, 2008 1192 Views 0 comment Print

The principal rules were published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i), notification No. 23/2004-Central Excise (N.T.),dated the 10th September,2004,vide number, G.S.R. 600 (E), dated the 10th September 2004, and was last amended by notification No. 48/2008-Central Excise(N.T) dated the 5th December 2008, vide number ,G.S.R. 836 (E) , dated the 5th December 2008.

Govt May Scale Down Indirect Tax Target

December 27, 2008 907 Views 0 comment Print

The government is likely to revise downwards indirect tax collections target for the current financial year by at least Rs 20,000 crore (Rs 200 billion), because of cut in industrial production due to the global economic slowdown and duty sops.

Notification No. 49/2008-Central Excise (N.T.); Dated: 24.12.2008

December 24, 2008 12172 Views 0 comment Print

For the purposes of this notification, except for S.No.30, “retail sale price” means the maximum price at which the excisable goods in packaged form may be sold to the ultimate consumer and includes all taxes, local or otherwise, freight, transport charges, commission payable to dealers and all charges towards advertisement, delivery, packing, forwarding and the like, as the case may be, and the price is the sole consideration for such sale.

Notification No. 64 /2008-Central Excise; dated: 24.12.2008

December 24, 2008 835 Views 0 comment Print

The principal notification No.4/2006-Central Excise, dated the 1st March, 2006 was published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, part II, section 3, sub-section (i) vide number G.S.R.94 (E), dated the 1st March, 2006, and was last amended by notification No. 58/2008-Central Excise, dated the 7th December, 2008 published vide number G.S.R. 840(E), dated the 7th December 2008.

Notification No. 63/2008-Central Excise; Dated: 24.12.2008

December 24, 2008 436 Views 0 comment Print

The principal notification No. 28/2002-Central Excise, dated the 13th May, 2002 was published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary vide G.S.R 361 (E), dated the 13th May 2002 and was last amended vide notification No.40/2004-Central Excise, dated the 4th August, 2004, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary vide G.S.R 502 (E) dated the 4th August, 2004.

Exempts Motor Spirit (commonly known as petrol)

December 24, 2008 535 Views 0 comment Print

from so much of the duty of excise leviable thereon under the said Schedules, as is in excess of the duty that would have been leviable on such goods under the said Schedules, if sold by the manufacturer for delivery at the time of removal of such goods or at any other time nearest to the removal of such goods, where the manufacturer and the buyer are not related and the price is the sole consideration.

Notification No. 60/2008-Central Excise; dated 24.12.2008

December 24, 2008 682 Views 0 comment Print

The principal notification was published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, vide number G.S.R.537(E), dated the 17th August, 2005 and was last amended vide notification number 27/2007-Central Excise, dated the 14th June, 2007, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, vide number G.S.R. 428 (E), dated the 14th June 2007.

Circular No. 880/18/2008-Central Excise, Dated: 22.12.2008

December 22, 2008 1435 Views 0 comment Print

The Notification SRO-91 dated 16.03.2006 issued by the Government of J & K states that every registered industrial unit claiming tax (VAT) remission shall make price adjustment in the selling price equivalent to the amount of tax chargeable on the finished goods sold, where after the tax shall be charged on the net selling price so that the benefit of such price adjustment is passed on to the purchasing dealer/consumer

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