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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 : Gujarat HC quashed rejection of ₹3.74 crore re-credit and directed credit restoration, holding PLA payment could not result in d...
Excise Duty : CESTAT Mumbai set aside excise demand, holding optional type test charges collected separately after manufacture are not includibl...
Excise Duty : CESTAT Delhi set aside Rule 6 demands, holding job work under Notification 214/86-CE is not an exempted service and waste and scra...
Excise Duty : CESTAT Mumbai set aside excise demands, holding Rule 8 inapplicable as prototype vehicles cleared for testing were not used in fur...
Excise Duty : CESTAT Hyderabad allowed CENVAT credit on goods used for an Air Separation Plant, held ownership irrelevant, demand time-barred, a...
Excise Duty : Notification No. 37/2026 revises the SAED rate on ATF exports outside India to Rs. 7.5 per litre. The revised rate takes effect fr...
Excise Duty : Notification No. 36/2026 revises SAED rates on petrol and diesel exports outside India to Rs. 4 and Rs. 8.5 per litre. The revised...
Excise Duty : Notification No. 35/2026 extends the Road and Infrastructure Cess exemption on petrol and diesel exports by Public Sector Oil Comp...
Excise Duty : Notification No. 34/2026-Central Excise expands the specified country list in paragraph 2(b) by including Maldives and Mauritius. ...
Excise Duty : Notification No. 33/2026 extends the SAED exemption on ATF exports by Public Sector Oil Companies to Mauritius and Maldives. The a...
CESTAT Chandigarh rules in favor of Souvenior Ceramics, granting exemption from excise duty for castable refractory goods supplied to power projects. Detailed analysis here.
The CESTAT Ahmedabad addresses a case involving a refund dispute related to abatement and excise duty, emphasizing the need for clear evidence and transparency.
CESTAT Mumbai held that eligibility of benefit of notification no. 30/2004-CE dated 9th July 2004 owing to reversal of CENVAT Credit needs to be examined by lower authorities. Accordingly, matter restored back to original authority for fresh determination.
CESTAT Mumbai held that rule 6(5) of Cenvat Credit Rules, 2004 provides for availment of entire amount of credit of input services even though certain portion must have been used in manufacture of exempted goods.
CESTAT Mumbai held that rule 10A of Central Excise Valuation (Determination of Price of Excisable Goods) Rules, 2000 [valuation rules] is effected only when inputs are supplied and sale is effected to the buyer by the Principal Manufacturer. Thus, Rule 10A of valuation rules doesn’t come into play for all manner of ‘job-work’.
CESTAT Kolkata held that the data resumed from the computer print out alone cannot be relied upon to demand duty, without any corroborating evidence. Accordingly, duty demand set aside.
CESTAT Ahmedabad’s verdict in Crown Ceramics Vs C.C.E. & S.T.- Rajkot. Excise duty not demandable for a procedural lapse in the case of alleged clandestine removal of goods.
Explore the Sarita Handa Exports Pvt Ltd vs. CESTAT Chandigarh case on Customs Clearance & Tour Services. Learn about the credit dispute and the CESTAT’s decision.
CESTAT Chennai’s ruling in Balmer Lawrie & Co. vs. Commissioner of GST & Central Excise: Central excise duty on metal containers returned as scrap analyzed. No penalty levied.
CESTAT Kolkata held that rejection of application for fixation of special rate under notification no. 32/99-CE and notification no. 31/2008-CE to new industrial units set up in North-Eastern States is incorrect and are in violation of law.
