LS passes Central Excise Amendment Bill 2025; steep hikes on tobacco duties
The bill, introduced on December 1, amends the Central Excise Act, 1944, to adjust tax rates while discontinuing the compensation cess once its liabilities are settled.
The bill, introduced on December 1, amends the Central Excise Act, 1944, to adjust tax rates while discontinuing the compensation cess once its liabilities are settled.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday stayed a Madras High Court order, which quashed a May 2018 notification prohibiting sale, manufacture, and transport of gutkha, and other tobacco-based products in Tamil Nadu.
All tobacco products, manufactured or imported or packaged, on or after December 1 will display the images provided by the government with the textual health warning as 'TOBACCO CAUSES PAINFUL DEATH' and those manufactured or imported or packaged on or after December 1, 2023, will display images with the textual Health Warning 'TOBACCO USERS DIE YOUNGER'.
The 17 years of working of COTPA was useful to a certain extent in defying the tobacco industry’s tactics to advertise and promote tobacco use in India. However, in spite of the Government’s best efforts to effectively enforce the law and civil society’s efforts to ensure that violations are adequately reported, the industry has been able to target, especially children, through their indirect promotion tactics.
Health warnings will include telephone Quit-line number “Quit Today, Call 1800-11-2356” on packets of all forms of tobacco products.
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