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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. 476/42/99-CX On the question of review/scrutiny of CEGAT orders involving any question having a relation to the rate of duty of Excise or to the valuation of goods for purposes of assessment, and filing civil appeals to the Hon”ble Supreme Court in appropriate cases, the Board has issued various instructions from time to time. As early as 1993, in view of the judgements of the Hon”ble Supreme Court in C.A. No. 2674 (NM)/1992 in the matter of CCE, Chandigarh v.
Circular No. 475/41/99-CX It has been brought to the notice of the Board that after the new levy under section 3A of the Central Excise Act, 1944 production), the exporters of such goods were not aware as to what procedure should have been followed. Few exports were effected by indicating / writing on export documents (AR-4, Export Invoice, etc.) that the exports were under bond.
Circular No. 474/40/99-CX I am directed to invite your attention to sub-rule 5 of Rule 173G of the Central Excise Rules, 1944 which requires every assessee to furnish to the Proper Officer a list in duplicate, of all accounts maintained and returns prepared by him (whether the same are maintained or prepared in pursuance of these rules or not), in regard to production, manufacture, storage, delivery
Circular No. 473/39/99-CX I am directed to say that a doubt has arisen whether the rebate of central excise duty paid on ingots billets of non-alloy steel and hot re-rolled products of non-alloy steel notified under section 3A of the Central Excise Act, 1944 for the period from 1.8.97 (the day re-rolled material and induction furnace goods were covered under this levy based on capacity of production) and 23.8.98 (the preceding day to the date when notifications providing method of computation of rebate were issued) can be granted in respect of the goods removed from the factory of independent manufacturers
Circular No. 472/38/99-CX I am directed to say that it was reported by the field-formations that cases of making willful wrong entries in the invoices, especially by the registered persons issuing invoices under Rule 57GG (Registered dealers), facilitating the buyer to avail wrong credit of additional duty under the Customs Tariff Act, 1975, came to notice.
Provided that nothing contained in any notification providing exemption from the whole or part of the duty of excise based on the value of clearance made in a financial year shall be applicable to the paper and paperboard manufactured by the said Ashok Paper Mills till this notification remains in force.
Circular No. 471/37/99-CX I am directed to say that difficulty had arisen for the manufacturers of goods specified under Chapters 61 & 62 of the Central Excise Tariff Act where rate of duty is NIL or the goods are exempted, especially the garment manufacturers primarily engaged in the manufacture / production for exports. These manufacturers were denied a simplified export procedure since these could not register themselves with the Central Excise in terms of the existing provisions of Notification 22/98 – Central Excise (N.T.) dated the 4th June, 1998.
Circular No. 470/36/99-CX I am directed to refer to Circular No. 449/15/99-CX dated 23.2.99 on the subject mentioned above. It was clarified vide the above mentioned circular that duty should not be demanded on waste packages/containers used for packaging modvatable inputs when cleared from the factory of manufacturer availing modvat credit following the CEGAT order in case of M/s West Coast Industrial Gases Ltd. v. CCE, Cochin.
F.No. 354/08/98-TRU Notification No. 32/99 exempts all excisable goods that are manufactured in the two types of industrial units mentioned in para 3 of the notification. These units are either new units which have commenced their commercial production on or after 24.12.97, of these are industrial units which have undertaken substantial by way of increase in installed capacity by not less than 25%. The increase in capacity should have been effective on or after 24.12.97.
Circular No. 469/35/99-CX It has been reported to the Board that Oil companies clearing their products under AR3A procedure are resorting to splitting/amendment of AR3A at the time removal of goods. Such splitting is necessitated due to deviation from the original plan of movement especially change of sailing schedule, lack of storage facility at installations, urgent need of product to other locations etc. It is, therefore, not possible to foresee such situations.
