{"id":349892,"date":"2020-05-06T12:02:15","date_gmt":"2020-05-06T06:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=349892"},"modified":"2020-05-06T12:02:15","modified_gmt":"2020-05-06T06:32:15","slug":"consumers-wont-benefit-from-lower-crude-oil-prices-as-govt-hikes-taxes-on-fuel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/consumers-wont-benefit-from-lower-crude-oil-prices-as-govt-hikes-taxes-on-fuel\/","title":{"rendered":"Consumers won&#8217;t benefit from lower crude oil prices as govt hikes taxes on fuel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: India late on Tuesday increased its taxes and duties on petrol and diesel instead of passing on the benefit of lower crude oil prices to consumers, as the government moves to raise revenues in an economy that ground to a halt in the coronavirus crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Taxes and duties on petrol and diesel were increased by 10 rupees\/litre and 13 rupees\/litre, respectively, but the federal government said in a statement that local pump prices would not be affected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: India late on Tuesday increased its taxes and duties on petrol and diesel instead of passing on the benefit of lower crude oil prices to consumers, as the government moves to raise revenues in an economy that ground to a halt in the coronavirus crisis. Taxes and duties on petrol and diesel were increased by 10 rupees\/litre and 13 rupees\/litre, respectively, but the federal government said in a statement that local pump prices would not be affected.<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-349892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349892","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=349892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}