Whisky, brandy, liqueur, cordial, bitters, vodka, gin and similar potable alcohol will draw a fee ranging between Rs 5 and Rs 400 for various price slabs The Bengal excise department has introduced a special purpose fee on foreign liquor bottled in India as well as imported foreign liquor, which manufacturers anticipate could have an inflationary…
In June 2021, the Kejriwal-led Delhi Government divided Delhi into 21 excise zones under the Excise Policy 2021-22. As per the policy framework, there would be 849 outlets selling alcohol in the national capital, including five super-premium vendors. The last set of licenses were allotted in September, and all new licensees were asked to begin…
ISWAI suggests 3E framework of Excise, Enforcement and Education to control informal liquor market Illicit and spurious liquor trade is a burden on public health and exchequer Punjab : With the onset of the festive season, the International Spirits & Wines Association of India (ISWAI), an apex body of the premium Alcobev sector, urged the…
Precise tracking systems and administrative coordination are behind the Excise Department’s successes In 2020, Punjab’s Excise Department launched ‘Operation Red Rose’ to curb illicit liquor trading and nail excise-related crimes. A year-and-a-half later, with the use of precise tracking and monitoring systems to check illicit distillation and smuggling of liquor, the results in terms of…
Many States have issued VAT Notifications levying VAT on ENA/Rectified Spirits.. Liquor Price, GST, VAT: There is a big confusion on industry on the taxability of products like Rectified spirit and Extra Neutral Alcohol (ENA) which are non-denatured spirits that contains up to 95 per cent of alcohol New Delhi: Liquor is one of the…
Jalandhar, October 18: The Excise Department has got an FIR lodged against a liquor contractor based at Nawanshahr, after seizing liquor, on which excise duty was not paid, from one of his vends, during a surprise check. Divisional Excise and Taxation Commissioner (DETC) Jaspinder Singh said on the direction of Excise Commissioner Rajat Aggarwal, the…
Assam cabinet had decided that to stop smuggling of liquor from neighbouring states specially Arunachal Pradesh, Transit Pass system will be introduced.The Assam excise rule has been amended. To minimize leakages of government revenue at Manufactory and Distillery level, electronic devises like Mass Flow Meter, Radar based Level Transmitter, sensor based Electronic Bottle counters and…
Kolkata: The West Bengal government’s excise department is seeking to engage cash-rich super distributors to handle transport, import, storage and supply of liquor from West Bengal State Beverages Corporation (Bevco)-managed warehouses to the retailers for a smoother supply chain experience. A source close to the development said that the move may ultimately lead to a…
New Delhi: All private liquor vends in Delhi will shut next month and only government stores will function until the Capital transitions to a new excise policy on November 17, the administration said on Wednesday, adding that it earned R8,900 crore from auctioning retail licences in the Capital’s newly created 32 zones. Delhi has 849…
[ad_1] CHENNAI: The closure of liquor vends has not reflected in alcohol consumption going down in Tamil Nadu. The number of Tasmac shops has reduced by nearly 20% in the past 15 years, but liquor sale jumped by eight times during the same period, a reply to an RTI question and a white paper on…