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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...
Circular No.542/38/2000-CX I am directed to say that consequent upon the amendment in Central Excise Rules with effect from 1.4.2000 allowing the Central Excise assessees to pay duty on fortnightly basis instead of payments consignment-wise, it became essential to review the format of Returns being submitted by assessees. Notification No. 48/2000-CX (NT) dated 18th August, 2000 has since been issued whereby new RT-12 Form has been prescribed, in place of the existing RT-3/RT-3 (modified) and RT-12 Forms.
G.S.R. (E). – In exercise of the powers conferred by section 37 of the Central Excise Act, 1944 (1 of 1944), the Central Government hereby makes the following rules further to amend the Central Excise Rules, 1944
F.No. 345/7/2000-TRU It is directed to draw your attention to the recent amendments made in the Central Excise Rules, 1944 allowing the assessees to discharge their duty liability on fortnightly basis. Representations have been received in this regard, whereby some of the assessees have expressed their desire to continue to pay the excise duty on consignment basis.
Circular No. 541/37/2000-CX The Tribunal vide Final order No.39/2000-D dated 4.1.2000 reported in 2000 (38) RLT 170 (CEGAT) in the case of Guru Overseas Pvt. Ltd. Vs. CCE, Delhi had decided that the car seat covers – whether of “Leather” or “Textile” are accessories and classifiable under Chapter sub-heading 8708.00.
G.S.R. 660(E) In pursuance of sub-rule (2) of rule 49 and rule 139 of the Central Excise Rules, 1944, the Central Government hereby makes the following further amendment in the notification of the Government of India in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue and Insurance), No. 266/67-Central Excise
Circular No. 511/7/2000-CX It is directed to invite your attention to Board’s Circular No. 6/89 dated 23rd June, 1989 issued from F.No. 15C/33/86-CX.1 circulating the opinion dated 6th May, 1989 of the then Attorney General of India on the subject mentioned above.+
G.S.R. (E) – 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, being satisfied that it is necessary in the public interest so to do, hereby exempts excisable goods, namely, cement falling under sub-heading No.2502.29 and steel falling under sub-heading No.7214.90 of the First Schedule to the Central Excise Tariff Act, 1985.
Circular No. 540/36/2000-CX Section II A of the Central Excise Act has been amended by clause 97 of the Finance Act, 2000. By the clause (97 (b), time limit to serve notice on persons in clause where duty of excise has not been levied or paid or has been short levied or short paid or erroneously refunded has been increased from 6 months to 1 year. finance Act, 2000 has come into force w.e.f. 12-5-2000.
Circular No. 539/35/2000-CX Your attention is invited to the DO letter F.No. 385/62/99/JC/2000 dated 17.2.2000 from Shri P.N. Malhotra, Member (L&J) and addressed to all Chief Commissioners of Customs and Central Excise. Through the said letter, Board had informed the Chief Commissioners about the out-come of our SLP and related CAs on the question whether the principles of unjust enrichment would be applicable in respect of cases of refund of duty paid on imported raw-materials even if captively consumed in the manufacture of final product.
Circular No. 538/34/2000-CX Please refer to the Board”s instruction contained in its circular No. 313/29/97-CX (F.No. 390/107/97-JC) dated 6.5.97 wherein it had been stated that the jurisdictional Commissioner would be primarily responsible for examining each and every order for filling Civil Appeal or Reference Application, as the case may be and if the Commissioner feels that a Civil Appeal under Section 35L/130 E is to be filed against a particular CEGAT Order relating to rate of duty
