<h1>Tobacco excise duty to increase after GST compensation cess ends, with a substituted tariff table setting new specific and percentage rates.</h1> The Central Excise (Amendment) Bill, 2025, substitutes the tariff table for tobacco in the Fourth Schedule to the Central Excise Act to enable higher excise duties on tobacco and related products once the GST compensation cess ends, specifying revised percentage and specific rates for unmanufactured tobacco, cigars, cigarettes by length/filter, and chewing tobacco.