{"id":364839,"date":"2020-07-27T10:21:20","date_gmt":"2020-07-27T04:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=364839"},"modified":"2020-07-27T10:40:52","modified_gmt":"2020-07-27T05:10:52","slug":"fuel-pump-owners-in-punjab-to-shut-shops-on-july-29-to-protest-against-high-tax-rates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/fuel-pump-owners-in-punjab-to-shut-shops-on-july-29-to-protest-against-high-tax-rates\/","title":{"rendered":"Fuel pump owners in Punjab to shut shops on July 29 to protest against high tax rates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHANDIGARH: Fuel pump owners in Punjab on Sunday said they will keep their petrol pumps shut on July 29 in protest against the high rate of taxes on petrol and diesel that is adversely affecting their business. Paramjit Singh, president of the Petrol Pump Dealers Association, said the fuel in Punjab is costlier than in Chandigarh and Haryana because of disparity in tax rates.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will shut our fuel pumps on July 29 from 8 am till 5 pm against high rate of taxes,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>A Mohali-based fuel pump owner ended his life on July 22. The association said G S Chawla had allegedly &#8220;succumbed to the pressure of loss of volume due to disparity in fuel prices in Punjab and neighbouring states, and revenue loss amid the COVID-19 pandemic&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHANDIGARH: Fuel pump owners in Punjab on Sunday said they will keep their petrol pumps shut on July 29 in protest against the high rate of taxes on petrol and diesel that is adversely affecting their business. Paramjit Singh, president of the Petrol Pump Dealers Association, said the fuel in Punjab is costlier than in Chandigarh and Haryana because of disparity in tax rates. &#8220;We will shut our fuel pumps on July 29 from 8 am till 5 pm against high rate of taxes,&#8221; he said. A Mohali-based fuel pump owner ended his life on July 22. The association said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,191,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-364839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364839","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}