{"id":450897,"date":"2021-11-20T12:10:07","date_gmt":"2021-11-20T06:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=450897"},"modified":"2021-11-20T13:52:44","modified_gmt":"2021-11-20T08:22:44","slug":"tamil-nadu-rules-out-further-reduction-in-taxes-on-petrol-diesel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/tamil-nadu-rules-out-further-reduction-in-taxes-on-petrol-diesel\/","title":{"rendered":"Tamil Nadu rules out further reduction in taxes on petrol, diesel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tamil Nadu Finance Minister P T R Palanivel Thiaga Rajan on Friday termed as \u201cunreasonable\u201d the Union government\u2019s request to state governments to reduce the state taxes on petrol and diesel while reducing its own share of taxes. He said it was \u201cneither fair nor feasible\u201d to further reduce state taxes as Union taxes continue to be \u201cexorbitant.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>In a three-page statement, Thiaga Rajan said the Union government has repeatedly raised taxes on petrol and diesel by &#8220;placing a heavy burden&#8221; on the people, despite calls from various quarters to reverse increases in their share of taxes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tamil Nadu Finance Minister P T R Palanivel Thiaga Rajan on Friday termed as \u201cunreasonable\u201d the Union government\u2019s request to state governments to reduce the state taxes on petrol and diesel while reducing its own share of taxes. He said it was \u201cneither fair nor feasible\u201d to further reduce state taxes as Union taxes continue to be \u201cexorbitant.\u201d In a three-page statement, Thiaga Rajan said the Union government has repeatedly raised taxes on petrol and diesel by &#8220;placing a heavy burden&#8221; on the people, despite calls from various quarters to reverse increases in their share of taxes.<\/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-450897","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\/450897","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=450897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}