Constitution of India, 1949
272.Taxes which are levied and collected by
the Union and may be distributed between the Union and the States.-
Union duties of excise other than such duties
of excise on medicinal and toilet preparations as are mentioned in the Union
List shall be levied and collected by the Government of India, but, if
Parliament by law so provides, there shall be paid out of the Consolidated Fund
of India to the States to which the law imposing the duty extends sums equivalent
to the whole or any part of the net proceeds of that duty, and those sums shall
be distributed among those States in accordance with such principles of
distribution as may be formulated by such law.