{"id":311288,"date":"2020-01-20T12:51:42","date_gmt":"2020-01-20T07:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=311288"},"modified":"2020-01-20T12:51:42","modified_gmt":"2020-01-20T07:21:42","slug":"centre-asks-states-to-slash-taxes-on-aviation-turbine-fuel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/centre-asks-states-to-slash-taxes-on-aviation-turbine-fuel\/","title":{"rendered":"Centre asks states to slash taxes on aviation turbine fuel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: To give a boost to the aviation industry, the Civil Aviation Ministry has written to several states which levy a high sales tax on aviation turbine fuel (ATF) to slash them. \u201cThe ATF cost accounts for 40 per cent of operational cost of airlines. The big challenge in this is the tax on it. We have now asked states to bring down this tax so that the burden on airlines is reduced,\u201d Pradeep Singh Kharola, aviation secretary, said in Bengaluru on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Kharola was delivering<br \/>\nthe keynote address during an industry meet in the city in connection with Wings India 2020, an international exhibition and conference on civil aviation, which will be held in Hyderabad in March.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: To give a boost to the aviation industry, the Civil Aviation Ministry has written to several states which levy a high sales tax on aviation turbine fuel (ATF) to slash them. \u201cThe ATF cost accounts for 40 per cent of operational cost of airlines. The big challenge in this is the tax on it. We have now asked states to bring down this tax so that the burden on airlines is reduced,\u201d Pradeep Singh Kharola, aviation secretary, said in Bengaluru on Saturday. Kharola was delivering the keynote address during an industry meet in the city in connection with Wings [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[208,130,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-311288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}