{"id":401507,"date":"2021-02-22T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-22T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=401507"},"modified":"2021-02-22T11:30:00","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T06:00:00","slug":"as-fuel-prices-soar-bengal-govt-reduces-tax-on-petrol-diesel-by-rs-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/as-fuel-prices-soar-bengal-govt-reduces-tax-on-petrol-diesel-by-rs-1\/","title":{"rendered":"As fuel prices soar, Bengal govt reduces tax on petrol, diesel by Rs 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The West Bengal government on Sunday announced a reduction of tax by Re 1 per litre on petrol and diesel effective from midnight.<\/p>\n<p>State 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 Rs 32.90 per litre in taxes from petrol, while the state gets Rs 18.46 only. In case of diesel, the central government&#8217;s earning is Rs 31.80 per litre as against Rs 12.77 for the state,&#8221; Mitra said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The West Bengal government on Sunday announced a reduction of tax by Re 1 per litre on petrol and diesel effective from midnight. State Finance Minister Amit Mitra said the move will provide some respite to people stung by burgeoning prices of fuel. &#8220;The Centre earns Rs 32.90 per litre in taxes from petrol, while the state gets Rs 18.46 only. In case of diesel, the central government&#8217;s earning is Rs 31.80 per litre as against Rs 12.77 for the state,&#8221; Mitra said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-401507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401507","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}