{"id":346185,"date":"2020-04-09T12:36:12","date_gmt":"2020-04-09T07:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=346185"},"modified":"2020-04-09T12:36:12","modified_gmt":"2020-04-09T07:06:12","slug":"petrol-diesel-prices-hiked-by-one-per-cent-in-puducherry-amid-covid-19-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/petrol-diesel-prices-hiked-by-one-per-cent-in-puducherry-amid-covid-19-lockdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Petrol, diesel prices hiked by one per cent in Puducherry amid COVID-19 lockdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PUDUCHERRY: In a bid to mobilise finance for COVID-19, the Puducherry government has enhanced VAT on petrol and diesel by one per cent.<\/p>\n<p>While Petrol will be taxed at 22.19 per cent in place of  21.25 per cent, tax on diesel will go up to 18.15 per cent from 17.15 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Commercial tax department notification, the new rates will come into effect from April 10. The additional revenue collected will be allocated to the Department of Health and Family welfare services, for incurring expenditure on COVID-19, in consultation with the Finance department, stated the notification.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PUDUCHERRY: In a bid to mobilise finance for COVID-19, the Puducherry government has enhanced VAT on petrol and diesel by one per cent. While Petrol will be taxed at 22.19 per cent in place of 21.25 per cent, tax on diesel will go up to 18.15 per cent from 17.15 per cent. According to the Commercial tax department notification, the new rates will come into effect from April 10. The additional revenue collected will be allocated to the Department of Health and Family welfare services, for incurring expenditure on COVID-19, in consultation with the Finance department, stated the notification.<\/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":[130,207,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-346185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-new-indian-express","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346185","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=346185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}