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Costlier V/S Cheaper - Budget Updates
Date 02 Feb 2021
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Budget 2020-21: Cigarettes, Tobacco, and Medical Equipment Face Tax Hikes; Some Agro Products and Electric Vehicles Get Relief
In the 2020-21 budget, tax hikes have made cigarettes, tobacco products, medical equipment, and various goods like footwear, furniture, and auto parts more expensive. Excise duty on cigarettes and customs duties on items such as footwear, furniture, and food processing goods have increased significantly. A health cess on medical equipment imports and higher import taxes on items like wall fans and toys were also introduced. Conversely, certain items like raw sugar, agro-animal based products, and select alcoholic beverages will become cheaper due to reduced customs duties. Exemptions and reductions were also applied to items like newsprint, tuna bait, and electric vehicles.

Budget - 20-21

Things that got costlier are cigarettes, tobacco products, medical equipments and others due to hike in taxes while the items that will become cheaper include raw sugar, agro-animal based products, tuna bait, skimmed milk, select alcoholic beverages, among others.

Expensive

  1. Proposal to increase Excise duty on Cigarettes across various lengths and tobacco products.
  2. Customs duty on footwear hiked to 35% from 25 %.
  3. Customs duty on furniture goods hiked to 25%.
  4. Customs duty on Specified goods used in refrigerators and AC hiked to 12.5 percent vs 10 percent.
  5. Customs duty on auto, auto parts raised by up to 10 percent.
  6. Customs duty on import of food processing items raised to 100 percent.
  7. Health cess of 5 percent announced on import of medical equipment.
  8. Increase in customs duty on wall fans from 7.5 percent to 20 percent.
  9. Customs duty on tableware and kitchenware doubled to 20 percent.
  10. Import tax on crude palm oil raised to 44 percent.
  11. Customs duty on paper trays, binders, clips, staples, etc raised to 20 percent from 10 percent.
  12. Customs duty on certain toys raised to 60 percent from 20 percent.

Cheap

  1. Customs duty on import of newsprint, lightweight coated paper halved to 5 percent.
  2. Anti-dumping duty on purified terephthalic acid (PTA) eradicated.
  3. Exemption on customs duty for tuna bait, skimmed milk.
  4. Customs duty reduced on sports goods.
  5. Customs duty reduced on microphones, electric vehicles. 
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