Budget taxes will raise prices of essential goods

Sugar, dahl, ice-cream, yogurt, soap, cement ...
How a number of items have gone up in price ... after the budget

After the budget presentation yesterday (22), several essential consumer items have been increased in price. What was expressed at the budget presentation was only the increase of Cess rates and other taxes. As no mention was made of each item increasing, the consumer was at a loss to immediately grasp the escalation of these items
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According to new taxes, a large number of types of hundreds of imported consumer items including sugar, dahl, sprats and onions have skyrocketed. 

What the Opposition say is that the tax burden has been put on the shoulders of the masses in order to met the costs incurred in CHOGM. 

The increase in special tax on commercial items imposed on imported items this time had  come into effect from yesterday because of the revision of such taxes and import tax has been subjected to increase. 

Some of the increase of prices per kilo is shown below in Rupees. 
(Cost per kilo in Rupees)
Sugar -- 30
Dahl -- 22
Sprats -- 26
Canned fish -- 102
Maldive fish -- 302
Other types of dry fish -- 102
Palm oil -- 110
Yogurt -- 625
Butter -- 880
Margarine -- 175
Coriander-- 202
Oranges -- 35
Grapes -- 130
Chillie powder -- 150
Turmeric powder -- 510

Apart from the above, the Cess rate had been increased for green gram, gram, ground nuts, onions, butter, mustard, fennel saffron, rice flour, cheese, buffalo curd,types of vegetables and a number of fruits except apples and mandarines; and also fruit juice. This tax has been imposed on imported chocolates, sweets, sausages, processed food, vinegar, sauce, soup, ice-cream, coffee, pepper and vanilla.

Soap and detergents, mosquito coils, candles, batteries,sanitary towels and gauze too have been subjected to the Cess rate at this budget while imported Portland cement, types of paint and varnish, steel products, aluminium pipes and rods, locks, padlocks, hinges, furniture, rubber products and production-machines too come under the Cess rate.