Karnataka's new excise policy is set to benefit United Breweries significantly. The state is shifting to a global taxation standard, deregu...

Karnataka Budget 2026: Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah presented the 2026-27 State Budget. The budget focuses on technology-driven gr...

Karnataka is set to overhaul its liquor tax system. Chief Minister Siddaramaiah announced reforms including an alcohol-content-based duty s...

Karnataka is on track to meet its ₹40,000 crore excise revenue target for 2025–26 despite a fall in liquor consumption after repeated tax h...

The government also announced that the license renewal period has been extended from one year to five years, offering long-term relief to i...

Alcohol prices in India vary significantly across states due to differing excise duties and taxes, with Goa having the lowest levies. This ...

The decision could lead to a significant disruption in brewing products in India's second largest beer consuming state. However, the notice...

The Karnataka state government has dismissed the recent fall in liquor sales as a normal occurrence and not indicative of a decrease in dem...

United Spirits, the country's biggest liquor firm, said price tags for its brands will go up by 14-17% in Karnataka after the state announc...

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...

Karnataka is one of the largest AlcoBev-consuming states in India, however, the overall excise revenue generation is not in line with the c...

Data shared by the State excise department showed that the targeted revenue of state excise in 2020-21 was Rs 22,700 crore, which was 1,116...

Chief minister BS Yediyurappa has been exploring revenue opportunities, and plans to also auction off plots of land in and around Bengaluru...

"We have increased the excise duty by 11 per cent. Other than this during the budget also the excise duty was increased,"Chief Minister B S...

Excise department officials too admitted that the retailers and bar owners are being made to buy more hard liquor than beer.

Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah, who is also in charge of planning the State’s finances, on Wednesday proposed in his Budget for 2017-18 abolishi...

Duty on liquor is one of the biggest revenue-earners for the state government. IML sales registered a 15.89% increase in 2013-14 but droppe...