{"id":395901,"date":"2021-01-18T10:52:28","date_gmt":"2021-01-18T05:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=395901"},"modified":"2021-01-18T10:52:28","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T05:22:28","slug":"excise-duty-collection-jump-48-this-fiscal-on-record-hike-in-taxes-on-petrol-diesel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/excise-duty-collection-jump-48-this-fiscal-on-record-hike-in-taxes-on-petrol-diesel\/","title":{"rendered":"Excise duty collection jump 48% this fiscal on record hike in taxes on petrol, diesel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI : While the pandemic pummelled tax collection across the board, excise duty mop-up jumped 48 per cent in the current fiscal on the back of a record increase in taxes on petrol and diesel, that more than made up for the below normal fuel sales.<\/p>\n<p>Excise duty collection during April-November 2020, was at \u20b91,96,342 crore, up from \u20b91,32,899 crore mop-up during the same period in 2019, according to data from the Controller General of Accounts (CGA).<\/p>\n<p>This despite the fact that over 10 million tonnes less diesel &#8211; the most used fuel in the country &#8211; was sold during the eight months period.<\/p>\n<p>Diesel sales during April-November 2020, stood at 44.9 million tonnes as compared to 55.4 million tonnes a year back, according to data from the oil ministry&#8217;s Petroleum Planning and Analysis Cell (PPAC).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI : While the pandemic pummelled tax collection across the board, excise duty mop-up jumped 48 per cent in the current fiscal on the back of a record increase in taxes on petrol and diesel, that more than made up for the below normal fuel sales. Excise duty collection during April-November 2020, was at \u20b91,96,342 crore, up from \u20b91,32,899 crore mop-up during the same period in 2019, according to data from the Controller General of Accounts (CGA). This despite the fact that over 10 million tonnes less diesel &#8211; the most used fuel in the country &#8211; was sold [&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-395901","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\/395901","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=395901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}