‘Put COVID-19 cess on tobacco products’: K’taka grp writes to GST council

A group of public health care professionals, activists and policy analysts in Karnataka are demanding a special COVID -19 cess on tobacco products to raise additional tax revenue for the government's COVID-19 stimulus package. For this, they have written to the GST (Goods and Services Tax) council appealing them to impose a COVID-19 cess on tobacco products. The collective called the Movement for…