{"id":447795,"date":"2021-11-06T10:31:26","date_gmt":"2021-11-06T05:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=447795"},"modified":"2021-11-06T12:05:13","modified_gmt":"2021-11-06T06:35:13","slug":"congress-bjp-slam-kerala-governments-stand-to-not-cut-taxes-on-fuel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/congress-bjp-slam-kerala-governments-stand-to-not-cut-taxes-on-fuel\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress, BJP slam Kerala government&#8217;s stand to not cut taxes on fuel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the Centre reducing excise duty on fuels, the left front government in Kerala was also facing strong pressure to reduce the taxes. <\/p>\n<p>Kerala Finance Minister K N Balagopal said that since the state government did not increase the tax on fuels during the last five years, it could not reduce the taxes further. The grim financial situation of the state government also did not allow a decline in taxes, he added.<\/p>\n<p>The Opposition Congress-led United Democratic Front and the BJP demanded the state government to reduce the tax.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the Centre reducing excise duty on fuels, the left front government in Kerala was also facing strong pressure to reduce the taxes. Kerala Finance Minister K N Balagopal said that since the state government did not increase the tax on fuels during the last five years, it could not reduce the taxes further. The grim financial situation of the state government also did not allow a decline in taxes, he added. The Opposition Congress-led United Democratic Front and the BJP demanded the state government to reduce the tax.<\/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":[146,130,177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-447795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447795","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=447795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}