Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Thursday spared the common man from price hikes by keeping duties on commonly used day-to-day items unchanged but made it costlier for smokers and tobacco consumers with a steep increase in excise rate in tax proposals in Budget 2014-15.
Following is a list of what will be expensive: • Cigarettes • Aerated drinks with sugar • Pan masala • Gutka and chewing tobacco • Jarda scented tobacco • Radio Taxi • Imported electronic products • Portable X-ray machines • Half cut/broken diamonds.