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G.S.R. (E).-In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1B) of section 35B of the Central Excise Act, 1944 (1 of 1944), the Central Board of Excise and Customs hereby makes the following further amendments in the notification of the Government of India
The Board has been examining various initiatives to enhance the effectiveness of EA 2000 Audit. It has been decided that the expertise of the Chartered/Cost Accountants can be availed in the process of Desk review being conducted by the Department. The services of Chartered/Cost Accountants would be paid at the rate of Rs. 5000/- per day with service tax and other government dues being extra.
In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-rules (9) and (10) of rule 9 of the CENVAT Credit Rules, 2004, the Central Board of Excise and Customs hereby specifies the form for the purpose of furnishing return under the said sub-rules
You are aware that Board has issued instructions from time to time regarding the response of the department concerning litigation before the Supreme Court. Your attention in this regard is invited to Board’s circulars below:- i) Circular No.313/29/97-CX, dated 6.5.1997 issued vide F.No.390.107/97-JC
in Annexure II, under heading 2. JAMMU PROVINCE, in sub-heading (II) DISTRICT KATHUA, under heading (C) Existing industrial locations run by SICOP, SIDCO, in the Table, against S.No. 1, in column Khasra Nos., for the entries 95/17/59/12, 101/78/13, 49/59/12, the entries 95/71/59/12, 101/75/13, 69/59/12, shall respectively be substituted.
In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 5A of the Central Excise Act, 1944 (1 of 1944), the Central Government being satisfied that it is necessary in the public interest so to do, hereby exempts all items of machinery, including prime movers.
Now, therefore, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 11C of the said Act, the Central Government hereby directs that the duty of excise leviable under the said Act on such Newsprint, in reels, but for the said practice, shall not be required to be paid in respect of such “Newsprint, in reels” on which the said duty of excise was not being levied during the aforesaid period in accordance with the said practice
The jurisdictional excise officer shall, after satisfying himself that the said goods have been used for the specified purposes, and on production of documentary evidence about the duty paid on the said goods, sanction the refund claim, at the rate of 6% of the cost of construction of such house or houses, as the case may be.
the Central Excise Act, 1944 (1 of 1944), the Central Government, being satisfied that it is necessary in the public interest so to do, hereby makes the following further amendments in the notification of the Government of India, in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue), No. 6/2002-Central Excise, dated the 1st March, 2002
Whereas the Central Government is satisfied that according to a practice that was generally prevalent regarding levy of duty of excise (including non-levy thereof) under section 3 of the Central Excise Act, 1944 ( 1 of 1944 ) (hereinafter referred to as the said Act), the duty of excise on “Cocoa beans, whole or broken, raw or roasted” and “Cocoa shells, husks, skins and other cocoa waste”, falling under Chapter 18 of the First Schedule to the Central Excise Tariff Act, 1985
