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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. 219/53/96-CX Under the provisions of rule 57G of the Central Excise Rules, 1944 any manufacturer of the excisable goods intending to avail of the credit of duty paid on inputs of the excisable goods intending to avail of the credit of duty paid on inputs in required to file a declaration in the prescribed form giving complete description of the inputs and the final product that he intends to manufacture
Circular No. 218/52/96-CX The Board vide its Circular No. 96/7/96- CX dated 13.2.1996 clarified that under the heading “Transit sale” movement of goods could take place directly on a Rule 52 A invoice from the manufacturer”s premises to the user”s premises on an order being placed by the dealer of excisable goods without being brought to the latter”s premises. The duplicate copy of the manufacturer”s invoice issued under the provisions of Rule 52A will serve as a cover for transport and for availment of Modvat credit.
Transit Sale – Movement of goods under rule 52A invoice- Regarding. The Board vide its Circular No. 96/7/96- CX dated 13.2.1996 clarified that under the heading ‘Transit sale’ movement of goods could take place directly on a Rule 52 A invoice from the manufacturer’s premises to the user’s premises on an order being placed by the dealer of excisable goods without being brought to the latter’s premises.
Circular No. 215/49/96-CX The matter regarding inclusion of notional interest on advances/ deposits in the assessable value of excisable goods have been re-examined in the light of the decision of the Supreme Court in the case of Metal Box India Ltd. v. CCE Madras (1995(75) ELT 49 (SC) and the Madras High Court decision in the case of UOI & Others – V. Lakshmi machines Works Ltd. (1996(62) ECR 265 (Mad)).
Circular No. 214/48/96-CX Representations have been received from the Trade that Central Excise Field formations have been collecting cess on tea waste. Cess is leviable on all tea produced in the country under the provisions of Tea Act, 1953 and no cess is leviable on tea waste or sweepings collected in tea factories.
Circular No. 213/47/96-CX I am directed to refer to rule 52A and 57GG of the Central Excise Rules, 1944 according to which the manufacturer and the registered dealers are required to maintain the invoice-book in a bound form.
Circular No. 212/46/95-CX I am directed to refer to the Board”s Circular No. 160/71/95-CX dated 29th November “95” issued from F.No. 209/31/95-CX.6, whereby it is provided that the AR 4 procedure is required to be followed for export clearances even by a unit whose value of clearances for home consumption was less than Rs. 30 lakhs in the preceding financial year or during the current financial year.
Circular No. 211/45/96-CX Attention is invited to the Board”s Circular No. 179/13/96-CX dated 29.2.1996 providing for the facility for the endorsement of Bill of Entry where the Bill of Entry is in the name of the Registered Officer/ Head Office but the credit is to be availed by the manufacturing unit.
Circular No. 210/44/96-CX I am directed to say that under Notification No. 373/86-CE dated 29.7.86 and subsequent Notification No. 48/94-CE dated 1.3.94, Television Chassis (Populated Printed Circuit Board) is exempt from payment of Central Excise duty provided that such TV. chassis is used in the manufacture of Black & White TV and where such use is else where than the factory of production
Circular No. 208/42/96-CX I am directed to say that with the introduction of the Section 11AA in the year 1995-96 in the Central Excise and Salt Act, 1944, and with the issuance of Notification No. 21/95- Central Excise (Non – Tariff) (F.No. 268/29/95-CX.8) dated 29.5.1995, a doubt has arisen about the rate of interest to be charged on delayed payments of Central Excise dues. After consideration of the matter,
