Bengaluru: Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Friday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi urging the union government to share with the state half of the revenue collected from the proposed cess on pan masala.

Karnataka is already foreseeing a revenue shortfall of Rs 9,000 crore in the current fiscal due to GST rationalisation, Siddaramaiah stated.

\"...we had estimated that states would face a revenue loss of 15-20% of their GST receipts owing to the rate rationalisation and the non-merger of the compensation cess into the GST framework,\" Siddaramaiah stated.

Siddaramaiah said gross GST collections for November 2025-26 recorded a 2% decline compared with 9.3% growth in the corresponding period last year.

\"The fact that even the festive month of October, which was characterise

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