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J&K Excise Department requests Govt to wave off additional excise duty as liquor sale ‘drops’

Jammu, Jul 10 (UNI) In view of ‘drop’ in the sale of liquor after the government imposed additional excise duty to meet the losses in view of lockdown, Jammu and Kashmir Excise Department on Friday requested the government to wave off additional excise duty to keep generating revenue.
J&K Excise Commissioner, Rajesh Kumar Shavan has submitted to the Finance Department of the government after taking review of the revenue realization in the last two months has found that there is drastic fall in the sale of liquor especially middle and low economy class brands and also the sales in Army and Para-military units Canteens.
“The 50 per cent additional excise duty has discouraged the consumers to purchase less quantity both in the open market as well as in the unit Canteens,” he submitted asserting that figures have revealed that the quota lifted from the Army Depot across the Union Territory has declined as compared to previous period. Reliably, it is learnt that many other States have rolled back the additional duty (Corona Tax).
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