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Nashik: Wineries in wine capital Nashik want the Union government to reduce packing duty on wine bottling from the present 18% to 8% in a bid to facilitate wineries. There is heavy tax on wine bottling which is 18%. “Wine bottling comes under packaging tax. There is cascading effect of these various taxes on wine as its selling cost goes up by three times the production cost. This will also boost sale of wine and fuel the growth of the wine sector,” Patil said, urging the Centre to bring wine under GST..