{"id":401407,"date":"2021-02-22T10:26:23","date_gmt":"2021-02-22T04:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=401407"},"modified":"2021-02-22T10:26:23","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T04:56:23","slug":"west-bengal-govt-reduces-tax-by-re-1-per-litre-on-petrol-diesel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/west-bengal-govt-reduces-tax-by-re-1-per-litre-on-petrol-diesel\/","title":{"rendered":"West Bengal govt reduces tax by Re 1 per litre on petrol, diesel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The West Bengal government today announced a reduction of tax by Re 1 per litre on petrol and diesel effective from midnight.<\/p>\n<p>West Bengal Finance Minister Amit Mitra said the move will provide some respite to people stung by burgeoning prices of fuel.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Centre earns \u20b932.90 per litre in taxes from petrol, while the state gets \u20b918.46 only.<\/p>\n<p>In case of diesel, the central government&#8217;s earning is \u20b931.80 per litre as against \u20b912.77 for the state,&#8221; Mitra said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The West Bengal government today announced a reduction of tax by Re 1 per litre on petrol and diesel effective from midnight. West Bengal Finance Minister Amit Mitra said the move will provide some respite to people stung by burgeoning prices of fuel. &#8220;The Centre earns \u20b932.90 per litre in taxes from petrol, while the state gets \u20b918.46 only. In case of diesel, the central government&#8217;s earning is \u20b931.80 per litre as against \u20b912.77 for the state,&#8221; Mitra said.<\/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-401407","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\/401407","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=401407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}