The Central Board of Indirect Taxes & Customs (CBIC), Department of Revenue, Ministry of Finance, invites suggestions on the draft ‘Central Excise Bill, 2024’ from stakeholders by 26^th June 2024.

The CBIC has prepared a draft ‘Central Excise Bill, 2024.’ Once enacted, the Bill shall replace the Central Excise Act, 1944. The Bill aims to enact a comprehensive modern central excise law with an emphasis on promoting ease of doing business and repealing old and redundant provisions. The Bill comprises twelve chapters, 114 (one hundred and fourteen) sections and two schedules.

As a part of the pre-legislative consultative process, the draft ‘Central Excise Bill, 2024’ has been uploaded on the website of CBIC [https://www.cbic.gov.in] for inviting suggestions from the stakeholders in the following format within 21 days:

FORMAT FOR SENDING SUGGESTIONS/ COMMENTS/ VIEWS

Sl. No.

Clause No. of the draft Bill

Title of the Clause

Proposed modification, if any

Reasons/ Comments/ Remarks

The suggestions/ comments on the draft Bill in the above format may be sent by email to cx.stwing[at]gov[dot]in in either MS Word (or compatible format) or machine-readable PDF format.

Central Excise Bill 2024 modernises excise law, sets levy, valuation, input credit, enforcement and appeal mechanisms. The Central Excise Bill, 2024 modernises and replaces the Central Excise Act, 1944 to provide for levy and collection of central excise duty on excisable goods, enables designation of notified goods with alternative bases of levy, prescribes valuation, registration, invoicing and an input credit regime (Central Excise Duty Credit), and sets out assessment, refund, audit, demand, recovery, penalty, settlement, and appellate procedures, together with search, seizure and transitional repeal provisions and detailed tariff schedules.