{"id":404162,"date":"2021-03-10T11:35:12","date_gmt":"2021-03-10T06:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=404162"},"modified":"2021-03-10T12:07:40","modified_gmt":"2021-03-10T06:37:40","slug":"no-plan-to-slap-new-cess-on-fuels-thakur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/no-plan-to-slap-new-cess-on-fuels-thakur\/","title":{"rendered":"No plan to slap new cess on fuels: Thakur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Centre doesn\u2019t intend to impose any new cess on petroleum products, minister of state for finance Anurag Thakur told the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday, even as calls for a cut in fuel taxes have grown only shriller since prices of petrol and diesel hit record levels in February. <\/p>\n<p>Asked if the government has any plan to bring petroleum products under the ambit of the goods and services tax (GST) regime, Thakur said any such move will require the GST Council\u2019s recommendation. \u201cSo far, the GST Council has not made any recommendation for inclusion of petrol and diesel under GST,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Centre doesn\u2019t intend to impose any new cess on petroleum products, minister of state for finance Anurag Thakur told the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday, even as calls for a cut in fuel taxes have grown only shriller since prices of petrol and diesel hit record levels in February. Asked if the government has any plan to bring petroleum products under the ambit of the goods and services tax (GST) regime, Thakur said any such move will require the GST Council\u2019s recommendation. \u201cSo far, the GST Council has not made any recommendation for inclusion of petrol and diesel under GST,\u201d [&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":[130,195,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-404162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404162","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=404162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}