SRINAGAR : Parliament on Thursday passed the Central Excise (Amendment) Bill, 2025, with the Rajya Sabha approving and returning it to the Lok Sabha. The legislation seeks to amend the Central Excise Act, 1944, raising excise duties and cess on tobacco products including cigarettes, cigars, hookah tobacco, chewing tobacco, zarda, and scented tobacco. Follow Us On G -N e w s | Whatsapp

The Bill aims to provide the government with fiscal space to increase central excise duty rates on tobacco and tobacco products, protecting tax incidence after the cessation of the tobacco cess. Minister of State for Finance Pankaj Chaudhary moved the Bill in Parliament.

Under the proposed amendments, excise duty on unmanufactured and manufactured tobacco, tobacco products, and tobac

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