{"id":343242,"date":"2020-03-24T12:01:35","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T06:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=343242"},"modified":"2020-03-24T12:01:35","modified_gmt":"2020-03-24T06:31:35","slug":"government-amends-law-to-get-powers-to-raise-excise-duty-on-petrol-diesel-by-%e2%82%b98-litre-in-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/government-amends-law-to-get-powers-to-raise-excise-duty-on-petrol-diesel-by-%e2%82%b98-litre-in-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Government amends law to get powers to raise excise duty on petrol, diesel by \u20b98\/litre in future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI : The government on Monday amended the law to get enabling powers to raise excise duty on petrol and diesel by \u20b98 per litre each in future.<\/p>\n<p>Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman moved an amendment to the Finance Bill, 2020, to raise the limit up to which the government can raise special excise duty on petrol and diesel to \u20b918 per litre and \u20b912, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>The amendment along with the Finance Bill was passed without a debate in the Lok Sabha.<\/p>\n<p>The government had on March 14 raised excise duty on petrol and diesel by \u20b93 per litre each to raise an additional \u20b939,000 crore in revenue annually. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI : The government on Monday amended the law to get enabling powers to raise excise duty on petrol and diesel by \u20b98 per litre each in future. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman moved an amendment to the Finance Bill, 2020, to raise the limit up to which the government can raise special excise duty on petrol and diesel to \u20b918 per litre and \u20b912, respectively. The amendment along with the Finance Bill was passed without a debate in the Lok Sabha. The government had on March 14 raised excise duty on petrol and diesel by \u20b93 per litre each [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,130,187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-343242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343242","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}