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Alcohol accounts for an increasing share of revenue in states' taxes with one in every seven rupees earned by the states in 2022-23 is expe...

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Liquor is big business for governments. So naturally the tax rules are perverse. But there is method in this madness.

Hard drinks such as whisky, gin, brandy, rum and vodka will cost more as excise duty on alcohol has been increased by 50%.

The higher the level of excise duty, the higher the gain from evasion, the greater the incentive to evade, the greater the bribes to be pai...