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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...
CESTAT Chennai held that levy of excise on bagasse and press mud was under litigation, hence the amount of credit reversed under Rule 6(3A) of CENVAT Credit Rules, 2004 has been reversed under protest and refund claim of such reversal done under protest is not hit by time-bar.
Icon Industries Vs Commissioner, CGST (CESTAT Delhi) Sabka Vishwas (Legacy Dispute Resolution) Scheme (SVLDRS) was introduced by way of Finance (No. 2) Act, 2019 by the Central Government. The main objective of the scheme is to provide for the settlement of pending disputes related to indirect taxes. The Appellant although applied under the said scheme […]
Seeks to further amend No. 04/2022-Central Excise, dated the 30th June, 2022 , to reduce the Special Additional Excise Duty on Diesel to Rs. 9 per litre vide Notification No. 39/2022-Central Excise Dated: 16th November, 2022 GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF FINANCE (Department of Revenue) New Delhi, Notification No. 39/2022-Central Excise Dated: 16th November, 2022 G.S.R. ….(E). […]
Seeks to amend No. 18/2022-Central Excise, dated the 19th July, 2022 to increase the Special Additional Excise Duty (SAED) on production of Petroleum Crude to Rs. 10,200 per tonne vide Notification No. 38/2022-Central Excise Dated: 16th November, 2022 GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF FINANCE (Department of Revenue) New Delhi, Notification No. 38/2022-Central Excise Dated: 16th […]
CESTAT find that, had the appellant not utilized the Cenvat credit of EC & SHEC for payment of output tax/duty in December 2016, the same would have become refundable as on 30/06/2017.
CESTAT Delhi held that in terms of the provisions of Rule 2(m) and Rule 7 of the CENVAT Rules, before 01.04.2016, the Principal Manufacturer as an Input Service Distributor is facilitated to distribute cenvat credit in respect of service tax paid on the input services to its Contract Manufacturing Unit working on job work basis.
CESTAT Mumbai held that for the same period excise duty is demanding alleging that activities undertaken by the appellants do amount to manufacture of Prefabricated building i.e. Green House and also service tax on activity of erection and commission of Greenhouse and Polyhouse at site. Accordingly, held that to ascertain the position, it is prudent to remand the matter to the adjudicating authority.
CESTAT Kolkata held that Factory in terms of Section 2(e) of the Central Excise Act includes any number of inputs within the same premises irrespective of the number of Central Excise registrations. Accordingly, CENVAT of such inputs available.
CESTAT Mumbai held that penalty under rule 209A of the Central Excise Rules, 1944 can be levied only if it is found that the concerned person have dealt with the goods in any manner which they knew are liable to confiscation. Role of co-noticee proved and hence penalty justifiable.
Meghmani Organics Ltd Vs C.C.E. & S.T. (CESTAT Ahmedabad) CESTAT find that there is no dispute about the duty and interest which were already paid by the appellant on pointing out by the audit. The only limited issue to be decided by me in the given facts and circumstances are that whether the appellant is […]
