The government has put off by one month the levy of an additional Rs 2 per litre excise duty on petrol that is not doped with ethanol and by six months for diesel not blended with bio-diesel in a bid to give the industry more time to implement the measure.
The finance ministry, in a gazette notification issued late on Friday (September 30), stated that the additional excise tax on petrol would now be levied from November 1, and that on diesel from April 2023.
