{"id":463111,"date":"2022-01-21T09:52:08","date_gmt":"2022-01-21T04:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=463111"},"modified":"2022-01-21T10:11:50","modified_gmt":"2022-01-21T04:41:50","slug":"india-tesla-in-weird-stalemate-on-tax-cut-demands-with-no-investment-pledge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/india-tesla-in-weird-stalemate-on-tax-cut-demands-with-no-investment-pledge\/","title":{"rendered":"India, Tesla in &#8216;weird stalemate&#8217; on tax cut demands with no investment pledge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Talks between India and Tesla Inc over potential tax benefits are deadlocked as the government is not keen to give the company any breaks without a commitment to manufacture locally, people familiar with the discussions told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>Tesla is desperate to import and sell its electric vehicles in India and has for nearly a year lobbied officialsin New Delhi to reduce tariffs, which the company&#8217;s billionaire CEO Elon Musk says are among the highest in the world.<\/p>\n<p>But Indian official sources said they have been unconvinced by Tesla&#8217;s lobbying as the company has not yet shared any firm plan to invest in the country, something that would be in line with Prime Minister Narendra Modi&#8217;s &#8220;Make in India&#8221; vision to boost local manufacturing and create jobs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Talks between India and Tesla Inc over potential tax benefits are deadlocked as the government is not keen to give the company any breaks without a commitment to manufacture locally, people familiar with the discussions told Reuters. Tesla is desperate to import and sell its electric vehicles in India and has for nearly a year lobbied officialsin New Delhi to reduce tariffs, which the company&#8217;s billionaire CEO Elon Musk says are among the highest in the world. But Indian official sources said they have been unconvinced by Tesla&#8217;s lobbying as the company has not yet shared any firm plan to [&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":[130,239,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-463111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463111","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=463111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}