{"id":345051,"date":"2020-04-03T11:15:52","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T05:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=345051"},"modified":"2020-04-03T11:15:52","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T05:45:52","slug":"how-much-tax-you-currently-pay-on-petrol-and-diesel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/how-much-tax-you-currently-pay-on-petrol-and-diesel\/","title":{"rendered":"How much tax you currently pay on petrol and diesel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite a sharp fall in global oil prices, petrol and diesel prices in India have remained unchanged for about a fortnight in many cities. The central government had last month effected a sharp hike in excise duty on both petrol and diesel last month. Meanwhile, due to the 21-day lockdown, fuel demand in India has seen a big dip. Petrol and diesel retailed at \u20b969.59 and 62.29 per litre respectively in Delhi today.<\/p>\n<p>State-run oil marketing companies have sold about 17% less petrol and about 26% less diesel in March compared to a year ago, Reuters reported, citing sources. State companies &#8211; Indian Oil, HPCL and BPCL &#8211; own about 90% of India&#8217;s retail fuel outlets.<\/p>\n<p>In India, the retail price of petrol and diesel depends on international product prices and other market conditions. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite a sharp fall in global oil prices, petrol and diesel prices in India have remained unchanged for about a fortnight in many cities. The central government had last month effected a sharp hike in excise duty on both petrol and diesel last month. Meanwhile, due to the 21-day lockdown, fuel demand in India has seen a big dip. Petrol and diesel retailed at \u20b969.59 and 62.29 per litre respectively in Delhi today. State-run oil marketing companies have sold about 17% less petrol and about 26% less diesel in March compared to a year ago, Reuters reported, citing sources. State [&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-345051","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\/345051","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=345051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}