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Steep excise hike on tobacco items...
Financial Express Lucknow
|December 01, 2025
FORTHE NON-filter cigarettes (65-70 mm), the duty has been proposed 18 times higher to %4,500 per thousand sticks from %250.The smoking mixtures for pipes/cigarettes will attract 325% duty from the existing 60%.
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The Bill seeks to replace the existing excise duty rates on tobacco products, which were kept low since the rollout of GST in 2017. The rates of central excise duties were reduced significantly to allow for the levy of the compensation cess without large impact on tax incidence.
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