The Bill was tabled earlier amid the Opposition's protest demanding a discussion on the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of ...

Lok Sabha passes Central Excise Amendment Bill, 2025; Nirmala Sitharaman clarifies no new tax or reduced state revenue. House ...

Parliament's Winter Session sees the government proposing new excise duty on tobacco and a 'Health Security–National Security ...

Finance Minister Nirmala clarified that the bill does not put forth any additional tax on tobacco during a discussion on the ...

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Wednesday said tax revenues collected from excise duty on tobacco and related products will be part of the divisible pool, and 41 per cent of that will be shared ...

The Lok Sabha has passed the Central Excise (Amendment) Bill, 2025, which restores excise duty on tobacco products as the GST ...

Lok Sabha passes a Bill to impose higher excise duty on tobacco products following the end of the GST compensation cess.

Several unmanufactured and stemmed tobacco varieties are assigned a 70% rate under the amended schedule. The updated structure consolidates rates across product types for clarity and ...

The Bill aims to raise excise duties and cess on tobacco products, with an amendment to the Central Excise Act, 1944 ...

New laws are set to tax tobacco and pan masala products. These bills replace the GST compensation cess. Excise duty will be ...

Bill, 2025 for consideration and passage. The Bill, moved by Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, seeks to amend the ...

The winter session of Parliament, which begins on 1 December and runs until 19 December, will have 15 sittings across 19 days ...