{"id":432256,"date":"2021-08-26T10:59:46","date_gmt":"2021-08-26T05:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=432256"},"modified":"2021-08-26T13:06:01","modified_gmt":"2021-08-26T07:36:01","slug":"lower-vat-on-jet-fuel-expedite-airport-expansion-scindia-to-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/lower-vat-on-jet-fuel-expedite-airport-expansion-scindia-to-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Lower VAT on jet fuel; expedite airport expansion: Scindia to states"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Union aviation minister Jyotiraditya Scindia has asked states to lower VAT on aviation turbine fuel (ATF) \u2014 a request made by all his predecessors in last 15 years now. Jet fuel price for domestic flights is among the most expensive globally due to two factors \u2014 high base price and then steep tax rates on that. <\/p>\n<p>The struggling-to-survive airline industry hopes that with Hardeep Singh Puri \u2014 who handled aviation just before Scindia \u2014 now Union petroleum minister, ATF prices should finally get rationalised. And if states lower VAT, jet fuel prices for domestic flights in India could get cheaper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Union aviation minister Jyotiraditya Scindia has asked states to lower VAT on aviation turbine fuel (ATF) \u2014 a request made by all his predecessors in last 15 years now. Jet fuel price for domestic flights is among the most expensive globally due to two factors \u2014 high base price and then steep tax rates on that. The struggling-to-survive airline industry hopes that with Hardeep Singh Puri \u2014 who handled aviation just before Scindia \u2014 now Union petroleum minister, ATF prices should finally get rationalised. And if states lower VAT, jet fuel prices for domestic flights in India could [&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":[220,130,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-432256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432256","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=432256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}