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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. 403/36/98-CX A proposal regarding nomination of representatives of Service Tax Sector in the Regional Advisory Committees by DG (Service Tax) has heen under consideration of the Board. The DG(ST) has proposed that each Commissionerate should have 3 representatives from Service Tax Sector in the RAC with further recommendation that this could be increased to 5 with the Separate RAC for Service Tax Sector,
Circular No. 402/35/98-CX Kind attention is invited to Board”s instructions as contained in Circular No. 313/29/97-CX (F.No. 390/107/97-JC) dated 6.5.97 and as reiterated in Circular No. 332/48/97-CX dated 9.9.97 on the above subject.
Circular No. 401/34/98-CX The Government of has been concerned about the mounting litigations specially in CEGAT and apex court on carious issues concerning levy and collection of Customs and Central Excise duties and had been seriously examining steps to reduce such litigation. Thus, changes in the basic provisions of the law including rules, notifications and the tariff entries etc.
Circular No. 400/33/98-CX I am directed to draw your attention to notification No. 22/98-CE(NT) dated 4th June, 1998 (hereinafter referred to as the said notification) issued under the provisions of rule 174, superseding notification No. 13/92-CE (NT) dated 14.5.92. The provisions for exemption from registration under rule 174 and filing of a “declaration” remains the same as in the erstwhile notification 13/92-CE(NT), ibid, except the following changes that have been brought about by notification No. 22/98-CE (NT
F.No. 354/62/97-TRU Attention to drawn to notification No. 15/98CE(NT) dated 2.6.98 wherein a proviso is added to Sub-Rule (7) of Rule 52A. By insertion of this Sub-Rule Commissioners may be general or special order exempt an assessee or class of assesses from pre-authenticating each foil of invoice book and from intimating serial number of the invoices.
Tariff values for Pan Masala in retail packages. – In exercise of the powers conferred by the sub-section (2) of section 3 of the Central Exercise Act ,1944(1 of 1944) and in superession of the notification of the government of India in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue) No. 5/97-Central Excise (N.Y.), dated the 1st March, 1997, the Central Government
such finished products, if manufactured and cleared by a unit other than a hundred per cent export-oriented undertaking or a unit in a free trade zone, are wholly exempt from the duties of excise or are chargeable to Nil rate of duty.
Circular No. 399/32/98-CX Attention is invited to Board”s Circular No. 249/83/96-CX.6 dated 11.10.96 issued from F.No. 206/01/96-CX.6 regarding introduction of self assessment. In these instructions it was prescribed, inter alia, that Additional Commissioners/ Deputy Commissioners should scrutinise RT-12 returns of units paying annual revenue of Rs. 5 crores and above.
Circular No. 398/31/98-CX I am directed to say that it has been observed by the Board that there is considerable delay in disposal of refund/ rebate claims. You may recall that the provisions have been made in the Central Excise Act, 1944 to grant interest if the refund claim is not sanctioned within 3 months from the date of receipt of the application.
Circular No. 397/30/98-CX I am directed to draw your attention to Board”s instructions contained in Circular No. 18/90-CX.6 dated 20.9.90 issued from F.No. 202/28/89-CX.6 on the above subject.
