Rema Nagarajan is with the Times Insight Group, which has a mandate to look at stories beyond and behind the headlines. She writes mostly on development issues like health and factors that affect ...

The health and education cesses were meant to enhance outlays for these crucial sectors but an analysis of Budgets since their introduction shows that their share in total government expenditure ...

New Delhi: Whether you like it or not, income tax is an integral part of our professional lives. And health & education cess is an integral part of the income tax you pay every year. A cess is a form ...

New Delhi: The government on Tuesday said that the compensation cess on automobiles will cease to exist effective September 22. Currently, automobiles are subject to GST at 28 per cent, which is the ...

The compensation cess on sin goods and luxury items such as liquor, automobiles, aerated water, cigarettes and other tobacco products, is scheduled to end by March 31, 2026, but cess on coal may ...

The vestige of the compensation cess, which will continue on tobacco and tobacco-related items under the new Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime even after September 22, when most of the new rates are ...

After eight years of piggybacking on India's goods and services tax (GST), the compensation cess levied on sin goods and luxury items may be finally integrated into GST levied on these items.