CA, CS, CMA : A comprehensive review of significant developments across Income Tax, GST, Customs, DGFT, SEBI, MCA, IBBI, and RBI. The update hig...
Excise Duty : India reduced excise duty on petrol and diesel to offset rising global crude prices due to geopolitical tensions. The move aimed t...
Goods and Services Tax : Budget 2026 revamps Customs, Excise, and GST to simplify compliance and boost exports. The key takeaway is a trust-based, technolo...
Goods and Services Tax : The Bill introduces relief on post-supply discounts, export taxation, refunds and intermediary services. It also simplifies custom...
Excise Duty : Discover how the Central Excise (Amendment) Act, 2025 revamps tobacco taxation, introducing steep excise duties on cigarettes, che...
Custom Duty : New baggage rules and processing regulations are notified, replacing earlier frameworks and aligning customs procedures for passen...
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 clarify how excise duty on chewing tobacco, jarda, and gutkha will be levied based on packing machine capacity rather tha...
Income Tax : MEMORANDUM EXPLAINING THE PROVISIONS IN THE FINANCE BILL, 2025 FINANCE BILL, 2025 PROVISIONS RELATING TO DIRECT TAXES Introduction...
Custom Duty : Article contains Explanatory Memorandum to Notification Nos. 02 to 12-Customs, dated the 1st February, 2023 and Explanatory Memora...
Excise Duty : CESTAT Hyderabad held that rule 7 of Cenvat Credit Rules, 2004 is just a procedure and procedural lapse cannot be ground to deny t...
Excise Duty : CBIC has amended Notification No. 08/2026-Central Excise to revise the SAED rate on ATF exports outside India to Rs. 12.5 per litr...
Excise Duty : CBIC has amended Notification No. 06/2026-Central Excise to revise the SAED rate on diesel exports outside India to Rs. 14 per lit...
Excise Duty : Notification No. 29/2026-Central Excise grants Nil Agriculture Infrastructure and Development Cess on E22, E25, E27 and E30 petrol...
Excise Duty : Notification No. 28/2026-Central Excise exempts E22, E25, E27 and E30 petrol blends from additional excise duty in the form of Roa...
Excise Duty : Notification No. 27/2026-Central Excise extends Nil special additional excise duty benefits to E22, E25, E27 and E30 petrol blends...
Circular No. 567/4/2001-CX As you may be aware, a Commission on Review of Administrative Laws was set up by the Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances under the Chairmanship of Shri P.C. Jain. The Commission submitted its report in September, 1998. The Department of AR & PG has already circulated the copies of the Commission’s report to all the Central Ministries/Departments for taking appropriate necessary action.
Circular No. 566/3/2001-CX The matter has been examined by the Board. It is observed that the unprocessed tyre cord fabrics falling under 59.02 are dipped in latex solution and passed through heating chambers; these dipped fabrics are further coated and calendered with unvulcanised rubber compound. These processed tyre cord fabrics (dipped/calendered) are used in the manufacture of tyres falling under Chapter 40. Such processed tyre cord fabrics were for years being classified under Heading 59.02
Circular No.565/2/2001-CX I am directed to enclose copy of Notification No.1/2001-Central Excise (N.T.) dated 11th January, 2001, whereby clause (e) of sub-rule (1) of rule 49 and clause (e) of sub-rule (1) of rule 173G have been amended. Instances have come to notice where certain Central Excise assessees did not pay substantial dues relating to earlier period even after being debarred for two months and were again eligible for the facility of fortnightly payment.
in rule 49, in sub-rule (1), in clause (e), in sub-clause (ii), for the words order passed by the proper officer in this regard, the words order passed by the proper officer in this regard or till such date on which all the dues are paid, whichever is later
Circular No. 564/1/2001-CX The Hon’ble Supreme Court of India in its judgment in Civil Appeal No. 215/66 in the matter of Md. Sarajuddin v. State of Orissa and Another, vide order dated 27-9-1966 – copy enclosed, had held that the subject matter of proceedings is the amounts for which demands are made and court fee is payable accordingly as per the provisions of Part-II of Schedule-III to the Supreme Court Rules, 1966 (quoted in the judgment).
1. These rules may be called the Central Excise (14th Amendment) Rules, 2000.2. They shall come into force from the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.
Circular No. 563/59/2000-CX I am directed to say that in relation to production and marketing of LPG (Liquified Petroleum Gas) in packed form for Domestic use, disputes have been persisting for quite some time between the Department and the assesses as to the price to be adopted for assessment purposes. L.P.G. is obtained in Petroleum Refinery or in Gas Extraction Plant of oil fractionators, and the marketing companies in the public sector handle the supply and distribution of LPG in packed cylinders for domestic consumers and also in bulk or in packed cylinders for industrial consumers.
Circular No. 562/58/2000-CX Notification No.5/98-CE dt.2.6.98, at serial No.27, prescribes a rate of duty of 10% for kerosene. Kerosene has been defined as “kerosene, that is to say, any hydrocarbon oil (excluding mineral colza oil land white spirit) which has a smoking point of 18 mm or more (determined in the apparatus known as smoke point lamp in the manner included in the Bureau of India Standards Specification ISI: 1448(p-31) 1968 as in force for the time being)”
Circular No. 561/57/2000-CX I am directed to invite your attention to Board’s Circular No. 30/88- CX- 3 dated 7.12.88 and 32/90 -CX-3 dated 28th June, 90, wherein it was clarified that vulcanization solution or rubber solution was classifiable under Heading No. 40.05 of the Central Excise Tariff.
Circular No. 560/56/2000-CX I am directed to invite your attention to Board’s Circular No. 413/46/98-CX., dated 6-8-1998 [See 1998 (102) E.L.T. (T31)] issued from F. No. 390/120/98-JC requiring the Commissioners to themselves examine the authorisation letters issued by them so that there is no occasion for CEGAT to dismiss the revenue appeals on technical ground. In spite of the above, it has come to the notice of Board that departmental appeals continue to be dismissed on the ground that there was no proper authorisation by the concerned Commissioner.
