{"id":339512,"date":"2020-02-28T12:20:15","date_gmt":"2020-02-28T06:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=339512"},"modified":"2020-02-28T13:06:50","modified_gmt":"2020-02-28T07:36:50","slug":"fine-breather-for-road-tax-dues-in-bengal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/fine-breather-for-road-tax-dues-in-bengal\/","title":{"rendered":"Fine breather for road tax dues in Bengal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vehicle-owners who clear their road tax dues by March 31 will enjoy 100 per cent waiver of penalty on pending tax and 50 per cent waiver of compounding fine for vehicle-related offences, the transport department announced on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The decision \u2014 applicable across the state \u2014 is aimed at collecting nearly 40 per cent of the pending fines, which could run into tens of crores, in both categories, finance department officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Road tax is payable for any vehicle \u2014 depending on the engine\u2019s displacement in cubic centimetres (cc) \u2014 every five years unless the owner has paid a \u201clifetime tax\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vehicle-owners who clear their road tax dues by March 31 will enjoy 100 per cent waiver of penalty on pending tax and 50 per cent waiver of compounding fine for vehicle-related offences, the transport department announced on Thursday. The decision \u2014 applicable across the state \u2014 is aimed at collecting nearly 40 per cent of the pending fines, which could run into tens of crores, in both categories, finance department officials said. Road tax is payable for any vehicle \u2014 depending on the engine\u2019s displacement in cubic centimetres (cc) \u2014 every five years unless the owner has paid a \u201clifetime [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,218,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-339512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-roads-the-telegraph","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339512","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}