{"id":350150,"date":"2020-05-07T11:41:56","date_gmt":"2020-05-07T06:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=350150"},"modified":"2020-05-07T11:41:56","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T06:11:56","slug":"petrol-diesel-to-be-costlier-in-uttar-pradesh-after-vat-hike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/petrol-diesel-to-be-costlier-in-uttar-pradesh-after-vat-hike\/","title":{"rendered":"Petrol, diesel to be costlier in Uttar Pradesh after VAT hike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After Delhi and Haryana, Uttar Pradesh has also hiked value added tax (VAT) on petrol and diesel. The demand for the fuels have increased after lockdown restrictions were lifted partially in the third phase beginning from Monday.<\/p>\n<p>UP Finance Minister Suresh Khanna said VAT has been increased by \u20b92 per litre on petrol and \u20b91 per litre on diesel. The new rates will be applicable from today midnight.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, the central government also raised excise duties on petrol by \u20b910 per litre and \u20b913 per litre on diesel. However, since crude oil rates have also fallen down, oil marketing companies will not increase price as a result of the hike in excise duties. But any increase in VAT, imposed by state governments, leads to a subsequent increase in retail selling price of the fuels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Delhi and Haryana, Uttar Pradesh has also hiked value added tax (VAT) on petrol and diesel. The demand for the fuels have increased after lockdown restrictions were lifted partially in the third phase beginning from Monday. UP Finance Minister Suresh Khanna said VAT has been increased by \u20b92 per litre on petrol and \u20b91 per litre on diesel. The new rates will be applicable from today midnight. Yesterday, the central government also raised excise duties on petrol by \u20b910 per litre and \u20b913 per litre on diesel. However, since crude oil rates have also fallen down, oil marketing companies [&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-350150","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\/350150","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=350150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}