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Excise Duty : CESTAT Delhi held that works contract services used for repair and maintenance of existing plant and machinery qualify as input se...
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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-...
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Excise Duty : The Lakshadweep Excise Regulation, 2026 establishes a comprehensive framework for licensing, manufacture, sale, transport, and con...
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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...
The principal rules were published in the Gazette of India vide notification No. 4/2002-Central Excise (N.T.), dated the 1st March, 2002, vide GSR 143 (E) dated the 1st March, 2002, and were last amended by notification No.08/2007-Central Excise (N.T.), dated the 1st March, 2007, vide GSR 148(E) dated the1st March, 2007.
Attention is invited to Circular No. 53/88-CX-6 dated 12.07.1998 wherein a revised abstract of XT-I diary was circulated. Over the years, the Central Excise laws and procedures have undergone several changes, and a need was felt to revise the format of the XT-I Diary. The revised XT-I contains important work carried out during a month and it does not require reporting of daily functioning as was being done in present XT-I format.
The principal rules were published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary vide notification No. 23/2004-Central Excise (N.T.), dated the 10th September, 2004, vide GSR 600 (E), dated the 10th September 2004, and were last amended vide notification No.32/2007-Central Excise (N.T.), dated the 3rd August, 2007, vide G.S.R.534 (E), dated the 3rd August, 2007.
In exercise of the powers conferred under Rule 31 of the Central Excise Rules, 2002, the Central Board of Excise and Customs, hereby, issues following instructions for the assessees manufacturing Pan Masala, Gutkha and Chewing Tobacco.
It is evident that when the exempted amount of duty was required to be refunded for operationalising the exemption, Education Cess, which was in the nature of piggy back duty on the excise duties under the said three Acts, was also required to be refunded, because it was not at all leviable, in view of the entitlement to exemption worked out under paragraph 2 of the said Notification.
The question before the Tribunal was whether Service Tax paid on outward transport of goods can be taken credit as input service. The issue is too well known for any detailed elaboration. Straight to what the Tribunal had to say; In a lucid and analytical dissection matching mathematical precision, the Tribunal observed.
The undersigned is directed to refer to the Boards circular No. 621/12/2002 dated 21.02.2002 on the above subject. Para 8 of this circular provides the time limit for filing refund claim to be one year from the date of purchase of the goods by the diplomatic mission or consular office, as per the provisions of section 11B (1)of the Central Excise Act,1944
The principal rules were published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary vide notification No. 23/2004-Central Excise (N.T.), dated the 10th September, 2004, vide G.S.R. 600 (E), dated the 10th September 2004, and were last amended vide notification No.27/2007-Central Excise (N.T.), dated the 12th May 2007, vide G.S.R.348 (E), dated the 12th May , 2007.
For the removal of doubts, it is hereby clarified that the specified goods shall be deemed not to have been used for the specified purpose even if any of the quantity of the subject goods is lost or destroyed by natural causes or by unavoidable accidents or for any other reasons during transport from the place of procurement to the DTA exporter and no wastage of the specified goods shall be allowed.
The principal notification was published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, vide number G.S.R.94(E), dated the 1st March, 2006, and was last amended by notification No. 23/2007-Central Excise, dated the 3rd May, 2007 and published vide number G.S.R.322(E), dated the 3rd May, 2007.
