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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. 130/41/95-CX Your attention is invited to the Finance Act, 1995 wherein a new section 11BB under Central Excise & Salt Act, 1944 wherein a new section on delayed refunds. Which the enactment of the Finance Act, the the Department has become liable to pay interest at the prescribed rate in case of various types of refund which are not processed within three months from the date of the receipt of refund applications under section 11BB of CE & SA, 1944, till the date of refund of such duty.
Circular No. 129/40/95-CX The new Central Excise rule No. 12(1) (b) has been framed to grant rebate of EC duty paid on raw materials /inputs used in the manufacture of the finished goods exported from India. The new Rule 12(1)(b) thus incorporates in it the erstwhile reels 12 A and 191A of the Central Excise Rules, 1944. A fresh notification 42/94, C.E. (N.T), dated 22.9.94 issued under the new rule permits grant of rebate of duty paid on any excisable materials used in the manufacture and packing of the goods exported. The notification details the conditions for claiming such rebate of duty
Circular No. 128/39/95-CX I am directed to refer to Board”s Circular No. 15/88-CX.I (F.NO. 13/7/88-CX.I) dated 25.4.88 wherein it was clarified that Board considers Zari and Zari items as “handicrafts” eligible for exemption under Notification No. 76/86 dated 10.2.86.
Circular No. 127/38/95-CX I am directed to invite your attention to Board”s letter F.No. 333/33/93-TRU dated 17.3.94 wherein it was stipulated that SSI units having value of clearances less than Rs. 30 lacs need not file a declaration but can send a plain letter with name and address of manufacturer and description of excisable goods being manufactured by him by registered post to the Collector of Central Excise.
Circular No. 126/37/95-CX I am directed to say that with a view to have proper accountal of the raw materials used in the manufacture of cigarettes; Trade Notices have been issued by different Collectorates prescribing maintenance of accounts in respect of different raw materials used in the manufacture of cigarettes
Circular No. 125/36/95-CX I am directed to say that doubts have been raised regarding the interpretation of certain notifications under which exemption from excise duty has been given on certain goods manufactured from duty paid goods.
Circular No. 124/35/95-CX I am directed to invite your attention to the provisions of Rule 173B of Central Excise Rules, 1944, as introduced by Notification No. 11/95-CE (NT) dated the 16th March, 1995.
Circular No. 123/34/95-CX Kind attention is invited to Board”s Circular No. 2/93-Cx.3 (F.No. 95/8/92-Cx.3) dated 21.5.1995 wherein it was clarified that Copper Phthalo Cyanine pigment of purity 95% (+ 1% subject to moisture content) and the most of which passes through the sieve also of 100-125 um may be considered to be standardised ready to use form.
Circular No. 122/33/95-CX Notification 64/93 provides, inter alia, that in a case where saloon car after clearance has been registered for use solely as a Taxi, the manufacturer of the said saloon car shall be entitled to further exemption of duty of 7% subject to the conditions
Circular No. 121/32/95 CX Certain doubts have been expressed regarding the appropriate classification of plastic grills used in air conditioners whether classifiable as an article of plastic under chapter 39 or as parts of air conditioner under Chapter 84.
