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Excise Duty : Health Security & National Security (HSNS) Cess Act, 2025 introduces a standalone statutory cess aimed at funding national health ...
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Excise Duty : Discover how the Central Excise (Amendment) Act, 2025 revamps tobacco taxation, introducing steep excise duties on cigarettes, che...
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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. 197/31/96-CX In an directed to say that the doubts have been raised whether product “Dhana Dal”/ Dhania Ki Dal/ Coriander seeds put up for sale in pouches is classifiable under heading 09.03 as spices or under Heading 21.08 as miscellaneous edible preparations, not elsewhere specified or included. Gujarat Dhana Dal Manufacturers” Association has contended that “Dhana Dal” is noting but spices and as such it is correctly classifiable under Heading 09.03 of Central Excise Tariff.
Circular No. 196/30/96-CX Ayurvedic system of medicines in accordance with the formulae given in the authoritative books specified in the first Schedule to the Drugs and Cosmetic Act and sold under a generic name are fully exempt from excise duty under notification No. 75/94-CE, dated the 29th March, 1944. The scope of the exemption on Ayurvedic, Unani, Siddha,
Circular No. 195/20/96-CX I am directed to say that certain doubts have been expressed regarding the correct interpretation of Board”s Circular No. 141/52/95-CX dated the 14th August, 1995 clarifying the classification of Photo- identity cards.
Circular No. 194/28/96-CX In the Case of U.O. I. & Others v. M.R.F. Ltd & others, the Hon”ble Supreme Court in its order dated 3.5.95 has decided that in case of sales where payments are received quite dated 3.5.95 has decided that in case of sales where payments are received quite some time later if interest is charged from the date of delivery of goods till the date of realisation of the price thereof, such interest is excludable from the value of the goods.
Circular No. 193/27/96-CX I am directed to draw your attention to Notification No. 8/96-CE(NT) dated 20.3.96 on the above subject and to say that the Board hereby authorised all the Chief Commissioners to permit the entry or retention of duty paid goods in the factory of warehouse
Circular No. 192/26/96-CX I am directed to invite your kind attention to Circular No. 7/87-CX dated 24 June, 1987 wherein it was clarified that the resistance type and choke type fan regulators are classifiable under sub-heading 8414.20 of the Schedule to the Central Excise Tariff Act, 1985, along with fans. Doubts have been expressed regarding the classification when the fan regulators are manufactured and cleared separately, not in combination with fans.
Circular No. 191/25/96-CX Doubts have been expressed about the classification of pigtails and patchcords as to whether the products are classifiable under chapter heading 85.44 as optical fibre cables, made up of individually sheathed fibres or under heading 90.01 as optical fibre cables other than those of heading 85.44 or under heading 90.93 as part and accessories for machine, appliances, instruments or apparatus of Chapter 90.
Circular No. 190/24/96-CX The steel pipes and tubes are classifiable under Chapter 73 of the Central Excise Tariff Act, 1985. The steel tubes are cold drawn and in the process, the outer diameters get reduced. After cleaning the the end of the tubes and removing the burs, the same are threaded and steel soket is fixed thereon. These and products are called oxygen lancing pipes.
Circular No. 189/23/96-CX I am directed to say that doubts have arisen about the classification of track insulating materials of plastics such as insulating liners, insulating end post, insulating plates, glass filled nylon liners, washers etc. manufactured for use by Railways. These products are reportedly used by the Railways for electrical insulation in track circulated section of railway to prevent flow of electric current from one railway track section to another railway track section.
Circular No. 188/22/96-CX It has been brought to the notice of the Board that a large number of products with different compositions are being cleared as “animal feed supplements” / additives/ premixes etc. but are benign classified either under heading 23.02 or heading 29.36 or under Chapter 30 of the Central Excise Tariff in various Commissionerates.
