{"id":447646,"date":"2021-11-06T09:04:47","date_gmt":"2021-11-06T03:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=447646"},"modified":"2021-11-06T09:41:53","modified_gmt":"2021-11-06T04:11:53","slug":"kerala-govt-firm-on-decision-not-to-reduce-fuel-tax-despite-criticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/kerala-govt-firm-on-decision-not-to-reduce-fuel-tax-despite-criticism\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerala govt firm on decision not to reduce fuel tax despite criticism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite opposition criticism, the Kerala government on Friday reaffirmed its stand that it could not forego the taxes on fuel due to the grim financial situation and said there was a natural proportionate decrease in the state tax with the Centre&#8217;s tax cut due to the peculiarity of the tax structure here.<\/p>\n<p>When many other states had increased fuel tax and introduced cess during the COVID-19 period, Kerala had not done so considering the plight of struggling commoners, state Finance Minister K N Balagopal told a press conference here.<\/p>\n<p>The Centre&#8217;s present decision to slash excise duty on petrol and diesel was due to the setbacks suffered by the BJP in the recent bypolls in various states, he alleged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite opposition criticism, the Kerala government on Friday reaffirmed its stand that it could not forego the taxes on fuel due to the grim financial situation and said there was a natural proportionate decrease in the state tax with the Centre&#8217;s tax cut due to the peculiarity of the tax structure here. When many other states had increased fuel tax and introduced cess during the COVID-19 period, Kerala had not done so considering the plight of struggling commoners, state Finance Minister K N Balagopal told a press conference here. The Centre&#8217;s present decision to slash excise duty on petrol and [&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":[135,130,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-447646","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\/447646","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=447646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}