{"id":448296,"date":"2021-11-08T11:06:57","date_gmt":"2021-11-08T05:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=448296"},"modified":"2021-11-08T11:46:49","modified_gmt":"2021-11-08T06:16:49","slug":"total-tax-on-petrol-down-to-50-diesel-to-40-after-duty-cuts-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/total-tax-on-petrol-down-to-50-diesel-to-40-after-duty-cuts-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Total tax on petrol down to 50%, diesel to 40% after duty cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The total incidence of taxes on petrol has come down to 50 per cent and that on diesel to 40 per cent following a reduction in excise duty by the Central Government, and by a slightly higher proportion in States that have also cut local sales tax or VAT on the fuel. <\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, the Congress-led Government in Punjab on Sunday announced a reduction in Value Added Tax (VAT) on petrol and diesel, making them cheaper by `10 and `5 per litre respectively in the State.  The new rates will be effective from midnight. Currently, petrol and diesel rates in Punjab are `106.20 and `89.83 per litre respectively. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The total incidence of taxes on petrol has come down to 50 per cent and that on diesel to 40 per cent following a reduction in excise duty by the Central Government, and by a slightly higher proportion in States that have also cut local sales tax or VAT on the fuel. Incidentally, the Congress-led Government in Punjab on Sunday announced a reduction in Value Added Tax (VAT) on petrol and diesel, making them cheaper by `10 and `5 per litre respectively in the State. The new rates will be effective from midnight. Currently, petrol and diesel rates in Punjab [&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-448296","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\/448296","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=448296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}