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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. 230/64/96-CX The procedural restriction envisaged in sub-rule (2) and 2(A) of rule 224, read with sub-rule (2) or rule 173G of the Central Excise Rules, 1944, regarding removal of excusable goods after 6 P.M. on the day preceding the Budget Day and also no the Budget Day, should be strictly enforced on all assessees, including those working under Self Removal Procedure.
Circular No. 229/63/96-CX I am directed to draw your attention to new Rule 13(1)(a) of Central Excise Rules,1944 effected by Notification No. 40/94 dated 22.9.94. A doubt has been expressed whether erstwhile facility which was provided to the industry by the Board by clarification through letter F.No. 209/41/88-CX. 6 dated 6.3.89, (i.e. intermediate excisable goods manufactured in the factory could be used captivity without payment of duty for the production of goods exported under bond) would continue to be available or not.
Circular No. 228/62/96-CX A doubt has arisen on account of conflicting views taken by various Hon”ble High Court and CEGAT on the issue whether a Demand -Cum-Show-Cause-Notice under Section 11A of Central Excises & Salt Act, 1944 is required to be issued once assessment of RT – 12 is finalised and the Superintendent of Central Excise indicates in the assessment memorandum the amount of duty debited less by the assesses.
Circular No. 227/61/96-CX In DAP No. 128/94, the audit has contended that aluminium and steel grills used in air conditioners are classifiable under Heading 84.15. A doubt has been raised whether these grills are classifiable as an article of aluminium and steel under Chapter 76 and 72 or as part of air conditioner under Chapter 84.
Circular No. 226/60/96-CX The Board has been informed that in cases in which citric acid i.e. preservative is not added in the preparation of sugar solution, the parties are contending that the solution does not have any shelf life and not marketable.
Circular No. 225/59/96-CX I am directed to invite your kind attention to Circular No. 23/89 F.No. 139/7/88-CX.4) dated 28th July, 1989 wherein it was clarified that castings as they emerge from the mould or after fettling etc. would be appropriately regarded as semi-finished articles if having the essential character of the finished machine parts or as a blank for machine parts which be classified under Chapter 84, 85, 86, 87 etc.
Circular No. 224/58/96-CX I am directed to say that Confederation of Indian Industry has pointed about divergence in practice of classification of power driven pump sets for handling water. A.P.D. pump set may be a pump having an inbuilt prime mover designed and built as a complete unit, called a monoblock pump-set, or a pimp and a prime mover being two separable units whether complied or not put/ intended to be put on a common platform.
Circular No. 223/57/96-CX I am directed to say that clarifications have been sought regarding com-putation of assessbed value (AV) on petroleum products attracting ad valorem rate. In the budget for 1994-95. excise duty on petroleum products was prescribed on ad valorem basis as against specific rates of duty existing prior to budget. As far as pricing of petroleum products is concerned, they can be divided into two categories
Circular No. 221/55/96-CX Consolidated maintenance of RG-23A Part II is permitted where the inputs used are common in the manufacture of dutiable and exempted final product. However, the assessee is required to submit a statement giving details of the inputs used and the quantity of the exempted and dutiable final product manufactured, thereof alongwith credit availment/ reversal particulars at the end of the every month.
Circular No. 220/54/96-CX It has been represented that the Central Excise authorities are not sanctioning cash refunds of the accumulated Modvat credit under the provisions of rules 57F (4) of the Central Excise Rules, 1944. As a consequence, large sums of money are lying tied-up in the accumulated Modvat credit account with exporters running into crores of Rupee.
