The Arunachal Pradesh Gazette

EXTRAORDINARY

PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY

No. 68, Vol. XXXIII, Naharlagun, Wednesday, March 11, 2026, Phalguna 20, 1947 (Saka)

GOVERNMENT OF ARUNACHAL PRADESH

DEPARTMENT OF TAX, EXCISE AND NARCOTICS

ITANAGAR

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Notification No. 19/2025 - State Tax

The 31st December, 2025

No. T-E-18012/7/2022/1071.— In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (5) of Section 15 of the

Arunachal Pradesh Goods and Services Tax, 2017 (7 of 2017), the State Government, on the recommendations

of the Council, hereby makes the following amendment in the notification of the Government of Arunachal

Pradesh in the Department of Tax, Excise and Narcotics No. 49/2023-State Tax, dated the 29th September, 2023

published in the Gazette of Arunachal Pradesh, Extraordinary No. 89, Vol. XXXI, Naharlagun, Wednesday,

February 21, 2024 vide number T-E-18012/7/2022, dated the 29th September, 2023, namely : -

In the said notification, after clause (iii), the following clause shall be inserted, namely :-

“(iv) supply of the following goods bearing the description specified in column (3), falling under the

corresponding Chapter/heading/sub-heading/tariff item specified in column (2), of the Table below, on which

retail sale price is declared : -

Table

Sl. No.

Chapter/Heading/

Description of Goods

Sub-heading/

Tariff item

1

2

3

1.

2106 90 20

Pan masala

2.

2401

Unmanufactured tobacco; tobacco refuse (other than tobacco leaves)

3.

2402

Cigars, cheroots, cigarillos and cigarettes, of tobacco or of tobacco substitutes

4.

2403

Other manufactured tobacco and manufactured tobacco substitutes;

“homogenised” or “reconstituted” tobacco; tobacco extracts and essences

(other than biris)

5.

2404 11 00

Products containing tobacco or reconstituted tobacco and intended for

inhalation without combustion

6.

2404 19 00

Products containing tobacco or nicotine substitutes and intended for

inhalation without combustion.

Explanation - For the purposes of this clause,-

(a)

“retail sale price” means the maximum price declared on goods at which such goods in packaged

form may be sold to the ultimate consumer and includes all taxes, duties, surcharge or cess, by

whatever name called;

(b)

where on the package of any specified goods more than one retail sale price is declared, the

maximum of such retail sale price shall be deemed to be the retail sale price;

(c)

where the retail sale price declared on packages of any specified goods is altered to increase the

retail sale price at any stage before, during, or after the supply, such altered retail sale price shall be

deemed to be the retail sale price;

(d)

where different retail sale prices are declared on different packages for the sale of any specified

goods above in packaged form in different areas, each such retail sale price shall be the retail sale

price for the purposes of valuation of the specified goods intended to be sold in the area to which the

retail sale price relates.

2 The Arunachal Pradesh Extraordinary Gazette, January 17, 2025

(e)

“tariff item”, “heading”, “sub-heading” and “Chapter” shall mean respectively a tariff item, heading,

sub-heading and Chapter as specified in the First Schedule to the Customs Tariff Act, 1975

(51 of 1975);

(f)

the rules for the interpretation of the First Schedule to the Customs Tariff Act, 1975 (51 of 1975),

including the Section and Chapter Notes and the General Explanatory Notes of the First Schedule

shall, so far as may be, apply to the interpretation of this clause”.

2.

This notification shall come into force on the 1st day of February, 2026.

Y. W. Ringu, IAS

Commissioner (Finance/Tax, Excise & Narcotics),

Government of Arunachal Pradesh,

Itanagar.

Note :

The principal notification was published in the Gazette of Arunachal Pradesh, Extraordinary No. 89,

Vol. XXXI, Naharlagun, Wednesday, February 21, 2024 vide number T-E-18012/7/2022, dated the

29th September, 2023 vide notification No. 49/2023-State Tax.

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