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Certain specified goods such as machinery, apparatus, instruments, cables, components or raw material supplied to specified mega power projects, including the projects with provisional mega power status, were exempted from central excise duty vide entry No. 338 under notification No. 12/2012-Central Excise, dated the 17th March, 2012 (as amended).
Seeks to clarify the applicability of the notification No. 2/2018-Central Excise dated 02nd February, 2018, that the said notification shall not apply to the goods manufactured on or before the 1st February, 2018 and cleared on or after the 2nd February, 2018.
Seeks to clarify the applicability of the notification No. 1/2018-Central Excise dated 02nd February, 2018, that the said notification shall not apply to the goods manufactured on or before the 1st February, 2018 and cleared on or after the 2nd February, 2018
Attention is invited to sixty three orders of different High Courts summarized in this Circular which have been accepted by the Department. In fourteen of these orders, Hon’ble High Courts have decided various questions of law. In the rest forty nine cases the Hon’ble High Courts have delivered judgments on the basis of some settled case law or have decided points of facts or have dismissed the appeal on monetary grounds.
CBEC has already put in place a mechanism to prevent delay in filing of SLPs and Appeals in the Hon’ble Supreme Court and a letter dated 1st June 2017 to this effect has already been circulated indicating revised time-frames. This is also available in the CBEC website. May I request you all to strictly adhere to the time frame indicated in the letter so as to avoid any delay in filing the of SLPs and Appeals. I have also issued a letter reiterating the above facts for strict compliance.
Notification No. 16/2018-Central Excise In exercise of the power conferred by sub-section (2A) of section 5A of the Central Excise Act, 1944 ( 1 of 1944), the Central Government considers it necessary for the purpose of clarifying the applicability of the notification of the Government of India in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue)
Notification No. 15/2018-Central Excise In exercise of the power conferred by sub-section (2A) of section 5A of the Central Excise Act, 1944 ( 1 of 1944), read with section 133 of the Finance Act, 1999 (27 of 1999), the Central Government considers it necessary for the purpose of clarifying the applicability of the notification of the Government of India in the Ministry of Finance
Notification No. 14/2018-Central Excise: Central Government considers it necessary for the purpose of clarifying the applicability of the notification of the Government of India in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue), No. 7/2018-Central Excise, dated the 2nd February, 2018, published in Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i), vide number G.S.R. 133 (E ), dated the 2nd February, 2018, and therefore, hereby makes the following amendments in the said notification, namely:-
Seeks to exempt high speed diesel oil blended with alkyl esters of long chain fatty acids obtained from vegetables oils, commonly known as bio-diesels, up to 20% by volume, that is, a blend, consisting 80% or more of high speed diesel oil from the additional duty of excise (road and infrastructure cess) levied under clause 110 of the Finance Bill 2018
Notification No. 12/2018-Central Excise Seeks to exempt 10% ethanol blended petrol from additional duty of excise (road and infrastructure cess) levied under clause 110 of Finance Bill 2018
