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Excise Duty Cut on Petrol and Diesel: A Bold Governance Move Amid War

Excise Duty : India reduced excise duty on petrol and diesel to offset rising global crude prices due to geopolitical tensions. The move aimed t...

March 27, 2026 3459 Views 0 comment Print

Key Highlights of Budget 2026 covering Major GST, Custom & Excise Duty Changes

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...

February 3, 2026 1758 Views 0 comment Print

Budget 2026: Analysis of GST, Custom & Excise Duty Amendment

Goods and Services Tax : The Bill introduces relief on post-supply discounts, export taxation, refunds and intermediary services. It also simplifies custom...

February 2, 2026 1560 Views 0 comment Print

Central Excise Act 2025: Reshapes Tobacco Taxation Landscape

Excise Duty : Discover how the Central Excise (Amendment) Act, 2025 revamps tobacco taxation, introducing steep excise duties on cigarettes, che...

December 17, 2025 20286 Views 2 comments Print

175 FAQs on Rewards for Informing the Government About Tax Evasion

CA, CS, CMA : ITIRS 2018 encourages citizens to report substantial tax evasion, guaranteeing confidentiality and structured rewards. False repor...

December 9, 2025 1902 Views 0 comment Print


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Budget 2026: Explanatory Memoranda to Customs and Central Excise changes

Custom Duty : New baggage rules and processing regulations are notified, replacing earlier frameworks and aligning customs procedures for passen...

February 1, 2026 1242 Views 0 comment Print

Central Excise and Service Tax Inspector Jailed for Disproportionate Assets

Excise Duty : A special court imposed five years’ rigorous imprisonment and heavy fines after finding assets far beyond known income. The ruli...

January 7, 2026 474 Views 0 comment Print

FAQs on Machine-Based levy in case of Chewing Tobacco, Jarda Scented Tobacco & Gutkha

Excise Duty : The FAQs clarify how excise duty on chewing tobacco, jarda, and gutkha will be levied based on packing machine capacity rather tha...

January 4, 2026 1773 Views 0 comment Print

Budget 2025: Analysis of Changes in Income Tax, GST, Custom Duty & Excise

Income Tax : MEMORANDUM EXPLAINING THE PROVISIONS IN THE FINANCE BILL, 2025 FINANCE BILL, 2025 PROVISIONS RELATING TO DIRECT TAXES Introduction...

February 1, 2025 17196 Views 0 comment Print

Budget 2023: Explanatory Memorandum to Custom & Excise Duty Notification

Custom Duty : Article contains Explanatory Memorandum to Notification Nos. 02 to 12-Customs, dated the 1st February, 2023 and Explanatory Memora...

February 1, 2023 1536 Views 2 comments Print


Latest Judiciary


Procedural lapse in Rule 7 of CCR, 2004 cannot be ground to deny substantial benefits of cenvat credit

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...

March 6, 2023 2277 Views 0 comment Print


Latest Notifications


Govt Raises RIC on Diesel Exports to Rs 31.5/Litre

Excise Duty : The government amended the excise notification to revise the duty rate to Rs. 31.5 per litre. The change is effective immediately ...

April 12, 2026 1608 Views 0 comment Print

Govt Raises SAED on ATF Exports to Rs 42/Litre

Excise Duty : Finance Ministry amends Notification 08/2026 to raise SAED on export of ATF to Rs 42 per litre, effective immediately from April 1...

April 12, 2026 516 Views 0 comment Print

Govt Raises SAED on Diesel Exports to Rs 24/Litre

Excise Duty : The government amended an earlier excise notification to revise the applicable rate to ₹24 per litre. The change has been made i...

April 12, 2026 351 Views 0 comment Print

Road and Infrastructure Cess on Diesel Increased to Rs. 36 per Litre

Excise Duty : Government has increased Road and Infrastructure Cess on high speed diesel to ₹36 per litre through a new notification. The chan...

April 12, 2026 660 Views 0 comment Print

Govt Raises SAED on High Speed Diesel to Rs 24/Litre

Excise Duty : Finance Ministry increases Special Additional Excise Duty on high speed diesel to Rs 24 per litre by amending Eighth Schedule, eff...

April 12, 2026 561 Views 0 comment Print


Budget 2014- Exempts all items of machinery, and components, required for initial setting up of a solar power generation project or facility or solar energy production

July 11, 2014 907 Views 0 comment Print

that an officer not below the rank of a Deputy Secretary to the Government of India, in the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy recommends the grant of this exemption, indicating the quantity, description and specification of the goods and certifies that they are required for initial setting up of a solar power generation or solar energy production project or facility, as the case may be; and

Amendment in Notification No. 33/2005- Central Excise, dated the 8th September, 2005 – Goods required for for compressed bio-gas (Bio-CNG)

July 11, 2014 2348 Views 0 comment Print

in the opening paragraph, after the words, “initial setting up of a project for the generation of power”, the words, brackets and letters “or generation of compressed bio-gas (Bio-CNG)” shall be inserted;

Exemption to certain Drugs, Diagnostics and Equipments required for National AIDS Control Programme funded by Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB and Malaria(GFATM)

July 11, 2014 1042 Views 0 comment Print

G.S.R. (E).- 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 the goods mentioned in column (1) of the Table below of the description specified in column (2) of the said Table from the whole of the duty of excise leviable thereon which is specified in the Schedule to the Central Excise Tariff Act, 1985

Amendment in Notification No. 12/2012-Central Excise, dated the 17th March, 2012 – Effective rate of duty of central excise

July 11, 2014 15464 Views 0 comment Print

Notification No. 12/2014-Central Excise after serial number 133 and the entries relating thereto, the following serial number and the entries shall be inserted, namely:-

Amendment in Notification No. 108/95-Central Excise, dated the 28th August, 1995 – Exemption to Goods supplied to UN/International Organisations or Projects

July 11, 2014 13774 Views 0 comment Print

transfer the said goods to a new project subject to the condition that the manufacturer produces before the Assistant Commissioner of Central Excise or Deputy Commissioner of Central Excise, as the case may be, having jurisdiction over the factory of manufacture, a certificate from the officer concerned of the Central Government, State Government or Union territory Administration, as the case may be, that the said goods are no longer required for the said project and a declaration from the United Nations,

Amendment in Notification No.64/95-Central Excise, dated the 16th March, 1995 – Exemption to goods supplied for defence and other specified purposes

July 11, 2014 2246 Views 0 comment Print

Notification No. 10/2014-Central Excise In the said notification, in the Table, after serial number 35, the following serial number and entries shall be inserted, namely:-

Amendment in the Notification No. 2/2011-Central Excise, dated the 1st March, 2011 – Option to pay duty at 6% (earlier 5%) with cenvat credit

July 11, 2014 3707 Views 0 comment Print

against serial number 58, in column (3), for the existing entry, the following entry shall be substituted, namely:- Sewing machines other than those operated with electric motors, whether in-built or attachable to the body;

Notification No. 8/2014-Central Excise Dated 11/7/ 2014

July 11, 2014 5546 Views 0 comment Print

Notification No. 8/2014-Central Excise 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 makes the following further amendments in the notification of the Government of India in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue), No. 1/2011-Central Excise,

Valuation of fertilizers for the purpose of levy of excise duty – inclusion of subsidy component in the assessable value – Clarification – Regarding

July 10, 2014 2485 Views 0 comment Print

In the Budget 2011-12, excise duty of 1% was imposed on chemical fertilizers falling under Chapter 31 of the Central Excise Tariff such as Urea, Di-ammonium Phosphate (DAP), Ammonium Sulphate, Single Super Phosphate (SSP), etc. and various grades of complex fertilizers.

Budget 2014 – Chapterwise Changes in Customs & Central Excise duty

July 10, 2014 10492 Views 0 comment Print

Important changes in respect of Customs and Central Excise duty and legislative changes are contained in the four Annexes appended to this letter. Annex I contains Chapter wise changes relating to Customs; Annex II contains Chapter wise changes relating to Central Excise. Annex III contains the clarifications being issued on various matters.

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