{"id":365867,"date":"2020-07-31T12:18:37","date_gmt":"2020-07-31T06:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=365867"},"modified":"2020-07-31T13:18:04","modified_gmt":"2020-07-31T07:48:04","slug":"delhi-cuts-vat-on-diesel-price-drops-by-over-rs-8-a-litre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/delhi-cuts-vat-on-diesel-price-drops-by-over-rs-8-a-litre\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi cuts VAT on diesel, price drops by over Rs 8 a litre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal has cut the value added tax on diesel to 16.75 per cent from 30 per cent, leading to a price drop of over Rs 8.36 per litre in the capital. This has raised hopes that the Modi government would take a cue and provide relief to consumers too.<\/p>\n<p>Kejriwal said the move will help revive Delhi\u2019s economy. A hike in VAT in May had taken diesel rates above petrol last month. The state government had hiked the VAT to generate revenue as the economy had come to a complete halt because of the lockdown.<\/p>\n<p>The Modi government had also raised the excise duty on petrol and diesel after the global oil prices plunged instead of passing on the benefits to the consumers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal has cut the value added tax on diesel to 16.75 per cent from 30 per cent, leading to a price drop of over Rs 8.36 per litre in the capital. This has raised hopes that the Modi government would take a cue and provide relief to consumers too. Kejriwal said the move will help revive Delhi\u2019s economy. A hike in VAT in May had taken diesel rates above petrol last month. The state government had hiked the VAT to generate revenue as the economy had come to a complete halt because of the lockdown. The [&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":[130,215,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-365867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-telegraph","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365867","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=365867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}