Special Additional Excise Duty rate revision alters the per tonne SAED for petroleum crude and related exports, effective immediately.
Revision of the Special Additional Excise Duty applicable to production of petroleum crude and export of aviation turbine fuel by substituting the rate entry for the first table item in Notification No. 18/2022 Central Excise with a new per tonne rate, effectuating a change in the chargeable SAED; the amendment takes effect from the stated commencement date and is recorded as an administrative update to the principal notification.

Excise duty exemption now excludes procurements for wind and solar captive power plants; policy cross references updated.
Amendments to Notification Nos. 22/2003 and 23/2003 revise internal paragraph cross references and update definitions to refer to the current Foreign Trade Policy and Handbook of Procedures. Critically, a new paragraph excludes procurement of goods for setting up, operation and maintenance of wind and solar captive power plants from the excise duty exemption, and obsolete policy period figures are omitted to align terminology and table/annexure references with the updated policy instruments.

Special Additional Excise Duty change: exports of petrol and diesel now exempt under amended notification.
Notification No. 19/2023-Central Excise amends notification No. 04/2022 by substituting the entry in column (4) against S. No. 2 with Rs. Nil per litre, thereby prescribing a nil Special Additional Excise Duty for the specified export item(s); the amendment is made under powers conferred by the Central Excise Act and the Finance Act and comes into force on the nineteenth of April, two thousand twenty-three.

Special Additional Excise Duty increased on crude production and ATF export, amending prior notification and effective shortly.
Amendment increases the Special Additional Excise Duty entry in the Table of Notification No. 18/2022 Central Excise for production of petroleum crude and export of aviation turbine fuel by substituting the entry in column (4) against the relevant serial number, with the amendment to take effect from the commencement date specified in the notification.

Designation correction: replace 'Dy. Secy' with 'Under Secy' in Central Excise notification on export duty.
Corrigendum to Notification No. 17/2023-Central Excise directs that, in the English version of G.S.R. 268(E) dated 3rd April 2023, at page 3 line 19, the designation "Dy. Secy" be read as "Under Secy"; issued as G.S.R. 273(E) dated 5th April 2023 with reference F. No. 354/15/2022-TRU and signed by Nitish Karnatak as Under Secy.

Corrigendum correcting designation in Central Excise notification: 'Dy. Secy' replaced by 'Under Secy' in English text.
Corrigendum to a Central Excise notification on Special Additional Excise Duty for Petroleum Crude and Aviation Turbine Fuel replaces the English-version designation "Dy. Secy" with "Under Secy" in the published Gazette notification, amending Notification No. 16/2023-Central Excise as reflected in G.S.R. 272(E).

Special Additional Excise Duty revised for diesel export, reducing the per litre charge and altering the prior tariff entry.
The Central Government has amended notification No. 04/2022-Central Excise to substitute the entry in the tariff table at the specified serial number, replacing the previous column (4) entry with a revised per litre rate of Special Additional Excise Duty for the relevant export product; the amendment is effective from the stated operative date and cites the enabling statutory provisions and administrative particulars.

Special Additional Excise Duty set to nil for production of petroleum crude, altering excise tariff obligations.
Notification No. 16/2023 Central Excise amends Notification No. 18/2022 Central Excise by substituting, against the relevant table entry, the column (4) entry with "Rs. Nil per tonne", thereby setting the Special Additional Excise Duty on production of petroleum crude to nil; the amendment is notified to take effect from the operative date specified in the notification.

Excise duty amendment extends the provisional effective rate applicability for high speed diesel to the next year.
Amendment to Notification No. 11/2017-Central Excise substitutes the year reference in the proviso to the Table entry for Sl. No. 3, column (3), after item (ii), thereby extending the period applicable to the effective rate of excise for high speed diesel; promulgated under section 5A(1) of the Central Excise Act by Notification No. 15/2023-Central Excise.

Special Additional Excise Duty on diesel exports increased by amendment, effective 21 March 2023 under Central Excise notification.
The Central Government, invoking powers under the Central Excise Act and Finance Act, amends Notification No. 04/2022 Central Excise by substituting the entry in column (4) against the designated serial number to increase the Special Additional Excise Duty on diesel exports; the amendment takes effect on the specified commencement date and references prior amendments to the principal notification.

Special Additional Excise Duty on petroleum crude reduced to a lower per tonne rate, effective 21 March 2023.
This notification amends Notification No. 18/2022 Central Excise by substituting the entry at S. No. 1, column (4) in the tariff table to specify a revised per tonne charge for Special Additional Excise Duty on production of petroleum crude; the amendment is made under section 5A of the Central Excise Act read with section 147 of the Finance Act and comes into force on 21 March 2023.

Excise exemption: Nil additional duty substituted for high speed diesel, altering duty applicability and effective early March.
The notification amends No. 10/2022 Central Excise by substituting the entry in column (4) against S. No. 2 with "Nil", thereby changing the additional duty treatment applicable to high speed diesel; it is issued under the Finance Act authority and comes into force on 4 March 2023.

Special additional excise duty on diesel exports reduced by amendment, altering the notified export duty rate and its effective date.
The Central Government, under section 5A of the Central Excise Act, 1944 read with section 147 of the Finance Act, 2002, amends Notification No. 04/2022-Central Excise by substituting the entry against S. No. 2, Column (4) to prescribe a revised Special Additional Excise Duty per litre for the specified fuel; the amendment is in the public interest and comes into force on the fourth day of March, 2023.

Special Additional Excise Duty increase on petroleum crude with reduced export duty on aviation turbine fuel, effective by notification.
Special Additional Excise Duty on production of petroleum crude is increased and the duty on exports of aviation turbine fuel is reduced by substituting entries in the table of the principal notification No. 18/2022 Central Excise; the substitution replaces the column (4) entry for the first serial number with a higher per tonne duty and for the second serial number with nil, and specifies the notification's commencement date.

Officer rank mapping: Additional Assistant Director designated equivalent to Superintendent enabling specified Central Excise powers.
The Board amends Notifications Nos. 38/2001-Central Excise (N.T.) and 28/2008-Central Excise (N.T.) to revise mappings between officers of specified Directorates and Central Excise officer ranks, explicitly adding "Additional Assistant Director" across several Directorate entries and substituting certain designations so that Additional Assistant Director is equated with the Central Excise rank of Superintendent; the changes take effect on publication in the Official Gazette.

Special Additional Excise Duty for fuel exports amended; a per litre duty prescribed, effective from mid February.
Prescribes a revised rate for Special Additional Excise Duty on exports of petrol and diesel by substituting the entry at Serial No. 2, column (4) in the Table of Notification No. 04/2022 Central Excise, enacted by ministerial notification and declared effective from 16 February 2023 as a further amendment to the principal notification of 30 June 2022.

Excise duty amendment revises rates for petroleum crude and aviation turbine fuel, altering statutory notification entries and taking effect imminently.
The Central Government amends Notification No. 18/2022-Central Excise to substitute the table entries: for S. No. 1, column (4) is replaced with Rs. 4,350 per tonne; for S. No. 2, column (4) is replaced with Rs. 1.50 per litre, the amendment being made under section 5A of the Central Excise Act, 1944 read with section 147 of the Finance Act, 2002 and coming into force the day after publication.

Special Additional Excise Duty rate change for petrol and diesel exports alters export taxation and duty liability under excise law.
Amendment prescribes a revised Special Additional Excise Duty rate for exports of petrol and diesel by substituting the prior entry against the specified serial number in Notification No. 04/2022 Central Excise; the amendment is effected under the Central Excise Act and the Finance Act and takes effect on the stated commencement date, thereby changing the excise chargeable on exported petrol and diesel.

Special Additional Excise Duty on petroleum crude and aviation turbine fuel amended with substituted rates effective in early February.
The notification amends Notification No. 18/2022-Central Excise by substituting the Table entries for S. No. 1 and S. No. 2, revising the Special Additional Excise Duty applicable to production of petroleum crude and to export of aviation turbine fuel. The amendment is effected under section 5A of the Central Excise Act, 1944 read with section 147 of the Finance Act, 2002, and takes effect on the fourth day of February, 2023.

CNG blended with biogas exempted from excise to the extent of tax on the biogas, subject to recordkeeping and quarterly reconciliation.
The notification exempts Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) blended with Biogas or Compressed Biogas (CBG) from excise duty to the extent of tax paid on the Biogas/CBG contained in the blended fuel, subject to manufacturer compliance: maintain detailed blending records at registered premises, submit quarterly reconciliation statements certified by the statutory auditor to the jurisdictional Commissioner by the 10th of the month following each quarter, and pay any short-paid duty with applicable interest after reconciliation.