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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. 308/24/97-CX I amd directed to say that certain doubts have been expressed as to whether the process of putting together a number of duty paid articles into a container like carton, kit etc. to be marketed as Cable Jointing Kits would amount of manufacture or not. In this process either the duty paid articles are procured entirely from the open market or some articles are manufactured by kitters and others are bought out. these articles are then put into a container like box, kit etc.
Circular No. 307/23/97-CX I am directed to refer to Sr. No. 162 of notification No. 4/97-Central Excise, dated the 1st March, 1997 and Sr. No. 124 of notification No. 5/97-Central Excise, dated the 1st March, 1997 and to say that whereas the former prescribes a rate of duty of 13% ad valorem for glassware produced by semi-automatic process in respect of goods falling under heading No. 70.07 to 70.15, the latter prescribes a duty of 8% ad valorem for all goods falling under sub-heading No. 7015.00.
Circular No. 306/22/97-CX Instances have come to the notice of the Board where job-workers have availed the credit on inputs used for job-work done by them under the provisions of rule 57F(4) of the Central Excise Rules, 1944.
Circular No. 305/21/97-CX It has been brought to the notice of the Board that certain Central Excise formations have issued certificates to merchant exporters who had exported the goods under Value Based Advance Licence (VBAL) to the effect that they have not availed the modvat facility.
Circular No. 303/19/97-CX Representations have been received by the Board stating that the facility of duty free clearances of the intermediate goods for the manufacture of export goods are being denied on the ground that Chapter X procedures comprising of inter alia, namely – inbond manufacture of export goods, maintenance of separate storage/ accountal, etc. could not be followed by a unit manufacturing intermediate goods and the export goods in the same unit.
Circular No. 302/18/97-CX Representations have been received from trade and industry with regard to denial of duty exemption to Ultraviolet Plastic Sheets by field formations when brought in connection with the production or manufacture or packaging of articles inside the 100% EOUs, in context of Notification No.136/94-CE dated 10.11.94, considering them as building materials.
Circular No. 300/16/97-CX It has been brought to the notice of the Board that in absence of Opening Balance and Closing Balance in the said format of Form RT-12 is posing difficulties in the on-line Computerised verification of RT-12 Returns. It has, therefore, been decided to modify the columns of the Form RT-12.
Provided that nothing contained in this notification shall apply where 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. 299/15/97-CX I am directed to say that the Board has decided to review the powers of adjudication with the objective that cases are decided expeditiously, there is even distribution of workload and various doubts in this regard are clarified.
Circular No. 298/14/97-CX I am directed to say that a case has come to the notice of the Board wherein a Show Cause Notice was issued for demanding duty for a period of five years and the Commissioner while adjudicating the case held that the demand was time barred as there was no suppression of facts etc.
