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Tobacco cess set to expire, enter health and national security cess
Mint Bangalore
|December 01, 2025
Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman will introduce a bill in Lok Sabha on Monday to levy a new cess for public health and national security, replacing the GST compensation cess on tobacco, which will lapse when the Centre completes repayment of the loans raised to compensate states.
Monday will be the first day of the 15-sitting winter session of parliament.
As per the list of business in Lok Sabha, the proposed levy will be charged on machines or processes used to manufacture specified goods, but their details were not given. The new levy is likely to ensure that the overall tax burden on cigarettes, gutkha, pan masala and other tobacco products is maintained at the current level even after the expiry of the GST compensation cess.
This story is from the December 01, 2025 edition of Mint Bangalore.
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