Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will on Friday move the Health Security and National Security Cess Bill, 2025, in the Lok Sabha for further consideration and passage during the ongoing Winter Session of Parliament.

The Bill, as stated by FM Sitharaman in the Lower House, aims to augment the resources for meeting expenditure on national security and for public health and to levy cess for the said purposes on the machines installed or other processes undertaken by which specified goods are manufactured or produced and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.

The legislation introduces a cess on pan masala as the existing compensation cess under the Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime is set to end. That portion will now shift into a 40 per cent cess.

On Thursday, e

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