{"id":486170,"date":"2022-04-23T10:33:36","date_gmt":"2022-04-23T05:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=486170"},"modified":"2022-04-23T10:33:36","modified_gmt":"2022-04-23T05:03:36","slug":"oil-minister-hardeep-puri-says-opposition-ruled-states-should-cut-vat-to-give-relief-to-consumers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/oil-minister-hardeep-puri-says-opposition-ruled-states-should-cut-vat-to-give-relief-to-consumers\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil minister Hardeep Puri says Opposition-ruled states should cut VAT to give relief to consumers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Opposition-ruled states that didn\u2019t cut value-added tax (VAT) on petrol and diesel earlier should reduce it now to bring relief to consumers, oil minister Hardeep Singh Puri has said.<\/p>\n<p>Puri accused states of \u201cmaking a killing\u201d by charging ad-valorem rates, which result in high revenues with rising prices, and asked states, ruled by the Congress and other opposition parties, to reduce rates by half. The Centre had cut taxes on fuel in November, which was followed by VAT reduction by several BJP-ruled states, he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opposition-ruled states that didn\u2019t cut value-added tax (VAT) on petrol and diesel earlier should reduce it now to bring relief to consumers, oil minister Hardeep Singh Puri has said. Puri accused states of \u201cmaking a killing\u201d by charging ad-valorem rates, which result in high revenues with rising prices, and asked states, ruled by the Congress and other opposition parties, to reduce rates by half. The Centre had cut taxes on fuel in November, which was followed by VAT reduction by several BJP-ruled states, he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,191,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-486170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486170","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}