Sin Tax Budget 2025: India’s plan to become a developed nation by 2047 requires a healthy workforce, but over 1% of GDP is lost to cigarett...

The Indian government held steady on sin taxes for tobacco in the latest budget. Cigarette taxes remained unchanged. A proposed 35% GST on ...

"The decision to place fruit-based, non-caffeinated sparkling drinks in the sin tax category, taking GST on Appy Fizz up by to four times f...

Governments traditionally impose higher taxes, often known as 'sin' taxes, on products with adverse health effects, such as alcohol and tob...

The proposal of imposing a 28% tax on gaming companies still building IP and technology will lead to the destruction of newer gaming ventur...

Expressing concern that designated smoking zones at airports, hotel and restaurants were a major cause for second hand smoking, the public ...

Within 'sin goods', there are different product categories with different nutrition levels and health impacts. Therefore, treating all of t...

ITC fits in smugly with the 'sin stocks' categorisation.

Higher taxes on so-called sin goods will help the government bridge a widening fiscal deficit.

If sin goods mean expensiveness, then even wearing expensive shirts would also be 'sin', JLR India MD said.

A sin stock is scrip of a company engaged in activity deemed unethical or immoral.

VHAA demanded at least 40 per cent sin tax with a provision for states' right to impose top-up taxes on all types of tobacco, like cigarett...

GST will decide the revenue neutral rate (RNR), the rate at which there will be no loss in aggregate central and state tax revenue.

The association wants the government to retain the present status of food in the central levy which is either ‘exempted’, or ‘zero rated’, ...

"It is the cigarettes that account for 85% of revenue to the exchequer. That count has shrunk from being 22%-23% of the industry to 11% now...

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said he was not worried about fiscal deficit and government would be able to meet its target.