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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...
Explore the CESTAT Ahmedabad order on Commissioner vs Sheena Textiles. Detailed analysis of the duty-free machinery dispute, conditions of exemption, and legal implications.
Explore the CESTAT Ahmedabad ruling in Suraj Industries vs. C.C.E & S.T.-Silvassa. Analysis of Cenvat Credit Rules, exemption dispute, key arguments, and tribunal’s verdict.
CESTAT Bangalore held that rule 11 of Central Excise Valuation Rules, 2000 will be applicable for determination of assessable value of goods manufactured on job work basis.
CESTAT Ahmedabad held that no reliance can be placed on statements of third party without tangible corroborative evidence. Accordingly, recovery of Cenvat Credit under rule 14 rightly dropped.
Assessee-company was engaged in the manufacture of transformers and their parts falling under Chapter Heading 8504 of the Central Excise Tariff Act 1985. It was registered with the Central Excise department and was availing CENVAT credit on various inputs including transformer oil.
CESTAT Chennai held that duty exemption available to all items of machinery, including instruments, apparatus and appliances, auxiliary equipment and their component parts required for setting up of water treatment plants. Accordingly, duty paid under protest is required to be refunded back.
CESTAT Ahmedabad held that spent solvent (DMF) arising during the course of manufacture of dutiable ‘Sucralose’ is not dutiable and hence demand of excise duty thereof is not sustainable in law.
CESTAT Chandigarh held that Cost Accountant certificate certifying incidence of duty has not been passed on cannot be disregarded unless it is proved to be blatantly wrong.
CESTAT Allahabad held that SAD (Special Additional Duty) is not leviable on the goods cleared in DTA as samples from EOU by availing of exemption from payment of Sales Tax/ VAT.
CESTAT Delhi held that denial of CENVAT Credit alleging non-receipt of goods based on statements without following procedure prescribed under section 9D of the Central Excise Act, 1944 is unjustified and unsustainable in law.
