To maintain overall taxation on tobacco products post GST 2.0 reforms, the Centre may impose additional excise or special duty above the pr...

BREAKING: Union Budget for 2024-25 keeps cigarette prices stable! Smokers rejoice as taxes remain unchanged. Analysts predict positive impa...

The economists strongly suggested that increasing inflation, which has put the country's budget under pressure, and urgent need of fresh ca...

The NGO Shram has already written to the Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and Health Minister Harsh Vardhan on the issue urging to...

The Federation of All India Farmer Associations (FAIFA), which claims to represent farmers of commercial crops from various states, includi...

Cigarettes account for 86% of revenue from tobacco taxation, while the contribution to tax collections from beedi and smokeless tobacco are...

"We appeal to the government to have a taxation policy, that disincentivises cigarette smuggling," FAIFA General Secretary Murali Babu said...

The association's General Secretary Murali Babu said the huge growth of illicit trade of cigarettes is a reflection of the unintended conse...

Last week the GST Council had approved tobacco cess to be kept as a mixture of Rs 4,170 per 1,000 sticks or ad valorem of 290 per cent.

ITGA has claimed that more than $1 billion have been pumped into anti-tobacco movement in last two years by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundati...

The WHO report on tobacco taxation 2015 reveals that at 6.5% of per capita GDP, cigarette taxes in India are amongst the highest in the wor...

"Prices of tobacco products in the country have not increased substantially over time, thus making these products even cheaper than essenti...

FCV tobacco is grown in AP & Karnataka. According to the association, farmers of FCV tobacco in these states don’t have any viable alternat...

The companies are likely to take the final call on exact price hike by April, as other state governments present their Budget.

Tax levied by India on tobacco products is among the lowest in the entire Asia Pacific region, and at variance with the World Health Organi...

Discriminatory taxes on cigarettes have not helped reduce the tobacco consumption in the country, says ITC divisional chief executive (toba...

The Tobacco Institute of India (TII) director on Thursday urged the government to formulate a pragmatic and equitable taxation policy to re...