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Excise Duty Cut on Petrol and Diesel: A Bold Governance Move Amid War

Excise Duty : India reduced excise duty on petrol and diesel to offset rising global crude prices due to geopolitical tensions. The move aimed t...

March 27, 2026 3657 Views 0 comment Print

Notes on Health Security se National Security (HSsNS) Cess Act, 2025

Excise Duty : Health Security & National Security (HSNS) Cess Act, 2025 introduces a standalone statutory cess aimed at funding national health ...

January 18, 2026 3159 Views 1 comment Print

Interest on Excise Duty Not Payable in Revenue-Neutral Situations: Calcutta HC

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...

January 16, 2026 729 Views 0 comment Print

Bought-Out Items Excluded from Excise Value for CKD Plant Supplies: SC

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...

December 17, 2025 585 Views 0 comment Print

Central Excise Act 2025: Reshapes Tobacco Taxation Landscape

Excise Duty : Discover how the Central Excise (Amendment) Act, 2025 revamps tobacco taxation, introducing steep excise duties on cigarettes, che...

December 17, 2025 20994 Views 2 comments Print


Latest News


CBI Court Sentences Ex-Central Excise Officer

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...

February 28, 2026 3532 Views 0 comment Print

Central Excise and Service Tax Inspector Jailed for Disproportionate Assets

Excise Duty : A special court imposed five years’ rigorous imprisonment and heavy fines after finding assets far beyond known income. The ruli...

January 7, 2026 537 Views 0 comment Print

FAQs for Health Security se National Security (HSNS) Cess Act, 2026 & HSNS Cess Rules, 2026

Excise Duty : The FAQs confirm that cess is computed on maximum rated machine speed rather than actual production. This ensures certainty in tax...

January 5, 2026 3348 Views 0 comment Print

FAQs on Machine-Based levy in case of Chewing Tobacco, Jarda Scented Tobacco & Gutkha

Excise Duty : The FAQs clarify how excise duty on chewing tobacco, jarda, and gutkha will be levied based on packing machine capacity rather tha...

January 4, 2026 1917 Views 0 comment Print

CESTAT Guidelines for Online Filing of Appeals

Excise Duty : CESTAT issues instructions for e-filing appeals, detailing registration, filing process, documents, fees, and compliance with Proc...

October 1, 2025 3624 Views 0 comment Print


Latest Judiciary


CESTAT Allows CENVAT Credit as Rule 16 Not Requires Goods to Be Returned to Same Buyer

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 ...

June 10, 2026 141 Views 0 comment Print

CENVAT Credit Cannot Be Denied for Plant Maintenance Services Misclassified as Civil Construction: CESTAT Delhi

Excise Duty : CESTAT Delhi held that works contract services used for repair and maintenance of existing plant and machinery qualify as input se...

June 9, 2026 66 Views 0 comment Print

CENVAT Credit Demand Set Aside as Export Turnover Cannot Be Included in Exempted Turnover

Excise Duty : CESTAT Chennai held that exports made under Notification No. 30/2004-CE and the DEPB scheme cannot be included in exempted turnove...

June 8, 2026 90 Views 0 comment Print

Excise Penalty Quashed as Duty and Interest Were Paid Before Show Cause Notice

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-...

June 7, 2026 96 Views 0 comment Print

CESTAT Allows Appeal as Export Turnover Cannot Be Added for Rule 6 Credit Reversal

Excise Duty : CESTAT held that where the value of goods sent for job work had already been considered for credit reversal purposes, including it...

June 5, 2026 339 Views 0 comment Print


Latest Notifications


Lakshadweep Introduces New Excise Law to Regulate Liquor Trade and Consumption

Excise Duty : The Lakshadweep Excise Regulation, 2026 establishes a comprehensive framework for licensing, manufacture, sale, transport, and con...

June 6, 2026 237 Views 0 comment Print

Govt Revises ATF Export Duty Rate From 1 June 2026

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 ...

May 30, 2026 192 Views 0 comment Print

Govt Revises SAED Rates on Petrol and Diesel Exports WEF 1st June 2026

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 ...

May 30, 2026 216 Views 0 comment Print

Govt Raises SAED on ATF Exports to Rs. 16 per Litre from 16 May 2026

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...

May 15, 2026 336 Views 0 comment Print

SAED on Petrol and Diesel Exports Revised from 16 May 2026

Excise Duty : The Ministry of Finance amended the central excise notification issued in March 2026 by revising rates applicable to specified goo...

May 15, 2026 483 Views 0 comment Print


SVLDR scheme benefit cannot be denied on Technical Grounds: HC

February 18, 2021 1623 Views 0 comment Print

Loyalty Solutions And Research Private Limited Vs Union Of India And Others (Punjab & Haryana High Court) The Designated Committee constituted under Amnesty Scheme vide impugned order dated 24.02.2020 (P-19) rejected declaration filed with respect to appeal pending before Tribunal on the ground that petitioner has filed single declaration with respect to four show cause […]

Financial Leasing Services: Service Tax on interest on loan prior to 01.03.2006?

February 12, 2021 2592 Views 0 comment Print

Commissioner of CGST & Central Excise Vs Shriram Transport Finance Company Ltd. (Bombay High Court) Whether for the period prior to 01.03.2006, service tax is recoverable on entire interest component collected as equated monthly installments on transactions relating to ‘Financial Leasing Services including equipment leasing and hire-purchase’, in absence of any mechanism to bifurcate the […]

SC ask govt steps they will take to stop habitual delay in appeal filing

February 10, 2021 570 Views 0 comment Print

C.C.E. And S.T. Vs Bilfinder Neo Structo Contruction Ltd. (Supreme Court) 1. There is a delay of 536 days in filing the appeal against the order of the Customs Excise and Service Tax Appellate Tribunal. Repeatedly, it has come to the notice of this Court that appeals in revenue matters involving indirect taxation are being […]

Date of receipt of order in absence of proof with Department of actual receipt of order by assessee

February 5, 2021 3651 Views 0 comment Print

Venkateshwara Power Projects Ltd Vs Commissioner of Central Tax (CESTAT Bangalore) Assistant Commissioner passed the Order-in-Original on 18/03/2019 but the same was not actually delivered to the appellant. The appellant only came to know on 12/03/2020 when they received a letter from the Superintendent informing them about the passing of the Order-in-Original and ordered to […]

Notification No. 01/2021-Central Excise (N.T.), Dated: 04/02/2021

February 4, 2021 2682 Views 0 comment Print

The notification amends the notification No. 13/2017-Central Excise (N.T.), dated the 9th June, 2017, (published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i) vide notification number G.S.R.566 (E), dated the 9th June, 2017) notifying the territorial jurisdiction of Commissioner (Appeals) in context of diversion of two posts of Commissioner (Appeals) CX […]

Exhaustive Analysis of Excise Duty Changes- Budget 2021

February 3, 2021 3954 Views 0 comment Print

Article explains Changes in Excise duty proposed/carried out by Union Budget 2021 and explains Amendment in Fourth Schedule , Retrospective amendment in Chapter 27 of the Fourth Schedule to the Central Excise Act, 1944, Amendment in Chapter 27 of the Fourth Schedule to the Central Excise Act, 1944, Imposition Of Agriculture Infrastructure And Development Cess […]

Key Changes Under Customs & Excise- Union Budget 2021

February 2, 2021 19779 Views 0 comment Print

Union Budget 2021 – Changes Under The Customs And Excise- This document summarises the Key changes made/ proposed under the Customs and Excise – Section wise in comparative manner for easy digest. CUSTOMS Unless otherwise stated, all changes in rate of Customs duty take effect from the midnight of 1st February/ 2nd February 2021. A […]

Budget 2021: Exhaustive analysis of Excise & Custom Duty Changes

February 1, 2021 48690 Views 1 comment Print

The Finance Minister has introduced the Finance Bill, 2021 in Lok Sabha today, that is 1St February, 2021. Changes in Customs, Central Excise, GST law and rates have been proposed through the Finance Bill, 2021. To prescribe effectives rates of duty, following notifications are being issued:

CBIC amends 4 Excise notifications to add reference of Agriculture Infrastructure & Development Cess

February 1, 2021 2538 Views 0 comment Print

Budget 2021- Seeks to amend notification Nos. 10/2018-Central Excise, 11/2018-Central Excise, 12/2018-Central Excise and 13/2018-Central Excise, all dated 02.02.2018, to add the reference of Agriculture Infrastructure and Development Cess in the appropriate duty of excise. Notification No. 07/2021-Central Excise Dated 1st February, 2021. GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF FINANCE (Department of Revenue) Notification No. 07/2021-Central […]

CBIC exempt E-20 fuel from Road and Infrastructure Cess

February 1, 2021 819 Views 0 comment Print

Budget 2021- CBIC Seeks to exempt E-20 fuel from Road and Infrastructure Cess – Notification No. 06/2021-Central Excise Dated 1st February, 2021. GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF FINANCE (Department of Revenue) Notification No. 06/2021-Central Excise New Delhi, the 1st February, 2021 G.S.R. 88(E).- In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 5A […]

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