New rules mandate chewing tobacco and gutkha makers install CCTV systems by February 1. Footage must be kept for 24 months. Manufacturers w...

Tobacco stocks like ITC and Godfrey Phillips saw significant drops on Thursday. This follows the finance ministry's notification of an addi...

Parliament has approved a new bill. This legislation will allow for higher excise duty on tobacco products. This change will take effect on...

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

The Karnataka High Court has ruled that the Union government is entitled to levy Central GST (CGST) as well as excise duty on tobacco and t...

Public health groups, along with economists and doctors, have urged the government to increase excise duty on all tobacco products in the U...

While the Budget did not change the basic excise duty for cigarettes, it increased the additional excise duty for filter cigarettes which w...

In the previous session also, cigarette stocks had recovered after falling sharply on the excise duty hike announcement.

ITC, the country’s largest cigarettes seller, did not respond to the mail seeking comment on the latest excise hike in the national budget.

Cigarette prices are set to go up for the fifth successive year in India with the Budget announcing 10-15% increase in excise duty for all ...

Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, in the budget presented today, increased Excise duty on tobacco products by 10 to 15 per cent, but exe...

Smoking is going to be costlier yet again with the budget increasing excise duty on cigarettes and cigars for the fourth consecutive year.

Cigarette price is going to go up by 12-14% for regular length cigarettes whose excise duty has been increased by 11-21%.

Pan masala manufacturers have come under the scanner of the central revenue department for possible excise duty evasion.

The government today imposed a five per cent export duty on iron pellets, a critical raw material for the steel industry, and raised excise...

Excise Duty rates should be kept unchanged to leverage the tax efficiency of cigarettes by encouraging shifts from non-cigarette forms of c...

Industry body, ASSOCHAM has recommended retention of single-point central, specific duty structure for cigarettes.