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The Centre has decided not to raise the Goods and Services Tax (GST) on tobacco products but will introduce a new central levy to keep the overall tax burden unchanged, Moneycontrol reported. The move ...

The Centre is planning to introduce an additional levy, such as a cess, on tobacco products like cigarettes, gutkha, or chewing tobacco to maintain the existing tax burden on these sin goods, while ...

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday asked GST officers to be polite and make life easier for honest taxpayers, but deal firmly with dishonest ones. Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman ...

Kolkata: The GST on notebooks, exercise books and other stationery items, such as pencils, have been slashed from 12% to nil but GST on most raw materials used to make the stationery has gone up to 18 ...

A policy letter on future tax strategy is due for debate in Q2 2026, which will consider whether to continue to progress the GST-plus package as agreed in November 2024 / Guernsey Press/Peter ...

Indian drugmakers are expected to post steady earnings growth for the quarter ended 30 September, gaining from continued traction across global markets, although domestic sales may have been hurt by ...

Uniform 5 per cent slab to spur mid-premium demand; sector growth pegged at 13–14 per cent Crisil Ratings expects the recent Goods and Services Tax (GST) rationalisation to lift revenue growth for ...

The Allahabad High Court in Abhay Prakash Katariar vs State of UP & Others (2025) set aside the seizure and penalty imposed under Section 129(3) of the GST Act on a hydraulic excavator that was being ...