Patna: Bihar cabinet today decided to refund license fees to bars, hotels and retail foreign liquor shops, besides giving 'export duty exemption' to distilleries of the state.
"The state cabinet gave its nod to Registration, Excise and Prohibition Department's proposal to refund license fees to bars, restaurants, hotels, retail foreign liquor shops," Principal Secretary (Excise) KK Pathak said.
License fee, movement fee, excise duty or VAT deposited by bars, restaurants, hotels, foreign liquor shops would be refunded to them following the state government's decision to enforce complete prohibition, he said.
Mr Pathak, however, could not specify the exact amount of license fees that would be refunded by the state government.
At present, there is 50 paisa per litre export duty on ethanol while it is Rs 4 per litre on ENA, Mr Pathak said.
There are 12 sugar and grain based distilleries in the state which produce ethanol and ENA.
It would help the distilleries in making them financially viable in the state, officials said adding that distilleries have got an order of 5 crore bulk litres of ethanol purchase from oil companies.
Senior BJP leader Sushil Kumar Modi had also demanded that the state government return 'license fees' it had collected for 2016-17 from bars.
"The state cabinet gave its nod to Registration, Excise and Prohibition Department's proposal to refund license fees to bars, restaurants, hotels, retail foreign liquor shops," Principal Secretary (Excise) KK Pathak said.
License fee, movement fee, excise duty or VAT deposited by bars, restaurants, hotels, foreign liquor shops would be refunded to them following the state government's decision to enforce complete prohibition, he said.
Mr Pathak, however, could not specify the exact amount of license fees that would be refunded by the state government.
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At present, there is 50 paisa per litre export duty on ethanol while it is Rs 4 per litre on ENA, Mr Pathak said.
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There are 12 sugar and grain based distilleries in the state which produce ethanol and ENA.
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It would help the distilleries in making them financially viable in the state, officials said adding that distilleries have got an order of 5 crore bulk litres of ethanol purchase from oil companies.
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Senior BJP leader Sushil Kumar Modi had also demanded that the state government return 'license fees' it had collected for 2016-17 from bars.
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