{"id":447842,"date":"2021-11-06T10:59:47","date_gmt":"2021-11-06T05:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=447842"},"modified":"2021-11-06T12:30:58","modified_gmt":"2021-11-06T07:00:58","slug":"punjab-to-discuss-reduction-on-vat-on-petro-products-in-cabinet-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/punjab-to-discuss-reduction-on-vat-on-petro-products-in-cabinet-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Punjab to discuss reduction on VAT on petro products in Cabinet meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After the Centre\u2019s decision to reduce excise duty on fuel, coupled with cut in VAT on fuel by neighbouring states of Haryana and UT Chandigarh, the Punjab Government is also examining reduction in VAT on petrol and diesel. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe issue would be discussed in the Cabinet meeting,\u201d said Finance Minister Manpreet Singh Badal on Friday.Manpreet, who is state\u2019 Finance and Taxation Minister, said the Punjab Government is also keen to slash prices of petrol and diesel to give more relief to people but final decision would be taken in Cabinet meeting, scheduled to be held on Saturday. \u201cThe State Government has to take care of every sector including education, health, electricity, police, and infrastructure development and to run several social welfare schemes for the people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the Centre\u2019s decision to reduce excise duty on fuel, coupled with cut in VAT on fuel by neighbouring states of Haryana and UT Chandigarh, the Punjab Government is also examining reduction in VAT on petrol and diesel. \u201cThe issue would be discussed in the Cabinet meeting,\u201d said Finance Minister Manpreet Singh Badal on Friday.Manpreet, who is state\u2019 Finance and Taxation Minister, said the Punjab Government is also keen to slash prices of petrol and diesel to give more relief to people but final decision would be taken in Cabinet meeting, scheduled to be held on Saturday. \u201cThe State Government [&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":[130,211,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-447842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-pioneer","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447842","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=447842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}