{"id":448264,"date":"2021-11-08T11:25:35","date_gmt":"2021-11-08T05:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=448264"},"modified":"2021-11-08T11:32:06","modified_gmt":"2021-11-08T06:02:06","slug":"congress-demands-further-reduction-in-excise-duty-on-petrol-diesel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/congress-demands-further-reduction-in-excise-duty-on-petrol-diesel\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress demands further reduction in excise duty on petrol, diesel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While the government informed that Goods and Services Tax (GST) collection has gone back to pre-pandemic levels, Congress on Saturday demanded a further reduction in the excise duty imposed on petrol and diesel during the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe government has been patting its back, boasting that the GST collection has gone back to the pre-pandemic level. You (government) used Covid as an excuse to increase the excise duty on petrol and diesel. Please reduce the excise duty of \u20b913 and \u20b919 imposed on petrol and diesel respectively during the pandemic,\u201d said Congress spokesperson Pawan Khera said at a press conference on Saturday<\/p>\n<p>This comes days after the government reduced \u20b95 and \u20b910 on the excise duty on petrol and diesel amid spiralling fuel prices, and urged states to further bring down the rates by reducing Value Added Tax (VAT).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the government informed that Goods and Services Tax (GST) collection has gone back to pre-pandemic levels, Congress on Saturday demanded a further reduction in the excise duty imposed on petrol and diesel during the pandemic. \u201cThe government has been patting its back, boasting that the GST collection has gone back to the pre-pandemic level. You (government) used Covid as an excuse to increase the excise duty on petrol and diesel. Please reduce the excise duty of \u20b913 and \u20b919 imposed on petrol and diesel respectively during the pandemic,\u201d said Congress spokesperson Pawan Khera said at a press conference on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[141,130,183],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-448264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448264","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}