ITC shares fell to a fresh 52-week low on Wednesday as investors reacted to steep tax hikes on cigarettes under the new GST 2.0 regime. Bro...

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

While taxation of tobacco is primarily under the purview of the GST Council, the central government also levies NCCD on cigarettes, subject...

ICICIdirect analyst Sanjay Manyal said the stable taxation and excise duties on cigarettes would aid volume growth for cigarette companies ...

ITC, which accounts for every three of four cigarettes sold in the country, has increased prices by 10% in the premium segment, while for t...

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...

The country’s largest cigarette maker ITC surged by 3.8% on Monday.

ITC said the tax on cigarettes has nearly trebled over the last six years whereby the taxation is about 50 times higher than other tobacco ...

Organisation said tobacco farmers in India are under extreme duress due to heavy taxation and adverse regulatory environment on the legal c...

An industry executive said the tobacco industry was expecting no changes in the taxation rate in the Budget since after the introduction of...

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

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...

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

Shares of cigarette companies have rallied over the past one month, with ITC, Godfrey Philips and VST Industries hitting record highs.

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

Given this high rate of excise on cigarettes, the current debate on a possible extension of the State VAT thereto, in addition to the excis...