Prices of imported motorcycles, laptops, mobile- phone sets and AC motors may go up in the upcoming fiscal year.
The prices of motor vehicles may also rise, as the supplementary duty (SD) on vehicles with cylinder capacity from 2001cc to 3000cc has been increased from 200 per cent to 350 per cent.
The SD on vehicles ranging from 3001cc to 4000cc has been increased from 350 per cent to 500 per cent.
However, the SD on vehicles above 4000cc has been kept the same as before (500 per cent).
The SD on hybrid vehicles has also been increased. The duty on hybrid vehicles from 2001cc to 2500cc has been increased from 45 per cent to 60 per cent.
For vehicles ranging from 2501cc to 3000cc, the SD has been increased from 60 per cent to 100 per cent.
For the 3001cc to 4000cc range, the SD has been increased from 100 per cent to 150 per cent. The SD on hybrid vehicles above 4000cc has been increased from 300 per cent to 350 per cent.
Prices of cigarettes, cheese and curd, birds of prey, domestic type water-purifying apparatus/machine, printing plates, fan motor, mobile and other battery chargers, solar modules or panels, parts of lighters, aluminum foil, screw, nut, bolts, coffee, optical fibre cables, pipe, wires, rods, tube plates, electrodes, cylinder, lighters, computer printer, cash registers, portable automatic data processing machines, manufactured refrigerator, and mobile phone set may also go up.
On the other hand, prices of wheel chair, cashew nuts, sewage treatment plant (STP), prefabricated buildings of wood, ball points, and stainless steel products may go down.
Also, prices of wheat gluten, sugarcane molasses, other cashew nuts in shell, and vanilla neither crushed nor ground wrapped/canned up to 2.5kg may also decline due to tax cut.
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