Haryana: With the new excise policy, the Haryana government's Excise and Taxation Department witnessed 65 percent increase in revenue Deputy Chief Minister Dushyant Chautala said.  Chautala, who holds the Excise and Taxation Portfolio, said that in this fiscal till August 26 a revenue of Rs 20,558 crore has been collected in comparison to Rs 12,831 crore collected in this period last year.

An official statement quoting him said that in 2020-21 the liquor contracts were auctioned for Rs 3,559 crore with the reserve price of Rs 3,128 crore.  Rs 37,350 crore was collected in 2018-19, Rs 39,837 crore in 2019-20 and Rs 45,119 crore in 2020-21.

Chautala said in 2021-22 those who already had licenses were given the option to take contracts with an increase of 10 percent. Thus 85 percent of the contracts were renewed. The revenue from liquor contracts of Rs 3,803 crore was received in the form of fees. In 2020 an additional quota of 32.42 percent of country liquor and 25.45 percent of foreign liquor made in India was raised.

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