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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...
KEC International Limited Vs Commissioner (CESTAT Delhi) From a plain reading of the provisions of Section 11(1) of Central Excise Act, I find that the Central Excise Officer is empowered to adjust only the unpaid adjudicated dues. As Section 11(1) also empowers the Central Excise Officer to recover the dues, even by way of attachment […]
Reliance Industries Ltd Vs C.C.E. & S.T. (CESTAT Ahmedabad) Appellant’s factory is admittedly huge existing petroleum industry and working for decades. The ECIS service was used for expansion, renovation and modernization of overall existing petroleum plant. As per inclusion clause of the definition the services relating to modernization, renovation is an admissible input service. In […]
India Gelatine & Chemicals Ltd. Vs C.C.E. & S.T. (CESTAT Ahmedabad) In the instant case there is no finalization of Provisional assessment and there is no challenge to any such assessment, in these circumstances the refund would not be governed by provisions of Rule 9 B. The appellant has claimed that the lower authorities have […]
M/s IPF Vikram Sulphonation Limited Vs Commissioner of CGST, Central Excise (CESTAT Delhi) The case of the Revenue is that the Spent Acid is an exempted goods, therefore, they are liable to pay an amount of equivalent 6% of the value of such Spent Acid in terms of Rule 6(3) of the CENVAT Credit Rules, […]
Green Valley Industries Limited Vs Commissioner of CGST & CX (CESTAT Kolkata) The brief facts related to the case at hand are that the Appellant had succeeded in its appeal before this Tribunal vide FO 75527/2020 dated 22/10/2020 which had resulted in refund of Rs.78,16,265/-which was deposited by the Appellant during the investigation proceedings before […]
Varun Beverages Limited Vs Commissioner of CGST & CX (CESTAT Kolkata) I find that the sales commission is directly attributable to sales of the products. Any activity which amounts to sale of the products is deemed to be sales promotion activity in the normal trade parlance. The commission paid on sales of the products/services with […]
We find there are different judicial forums who has held that high consumption of electricity by itself not a ground to infer suppression of production. The onus is on the department to prove allegation of clandestine removal with positive and concrete evidence.
Explore the CESTAT Delhi ruling in Anheuser Busch InBev India vs. Commissioner. Learn about excisability, duty, and Notification No.67/95 implications.
Shri Vivek Johri, Chairman, Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC), presented a set of Time Release Studies (TRS) conducted by the department. TRS are essentially a performance measurement tool for assessing the cargo clearance process of the international trade, as recommended by the World Trade Organization (WTO) under the Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) […]
Hubergroup India Pvt Ltd Vs C.C.E. & S.T. (CESTAT Ahmedabad) CESTAT 1find that the lower authorities had not denied the cenvat credit on gardening service per se but on the ground that the appellant have not established that the garden is maintained for the purpose of Pollution Control. This reason of the lower authorities is […]
