{"id":493102,"date":"2022-05-23T10:53:56","date_gmt":"2022-05-23T05:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=493102"},"modified":"2022-05-23T10:53:56","modified_gmt":"2022-05-23T05:23:56","slug":"states-in-no-hurry-to-cut-vat-on-petrol-diesel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/states-in-no-hurry-to-cut-vat-on-petrol-diesel\/","title":{"rendered":"States in no hurry to cut VAT on petrol, diesel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even though the Centre cut excise duty on petrol and diesel for the second time in seven months, Opposition-ruled states seem to be in no hurry to oblige with value added tax (VAT) cuts to give further relief to consumers.<\/p>\n<p>The BJP-ruled states, which had reduced their taxes following last November\u2019s tax cuts by the Centre, are seeking a reduction in VAT by states where the governments are led by Opposition parties. These states did not cut tax rates then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even though the Centre cut excise duty on petrol and diesel for the second time in seven months, Opposition-ruled states seem to be in no hurry to oblige with value added tax (VAT) cuts to give further relief to consumers. The BJP-ruled states, which had reduced their taxes following last November\u2019s tax cuts by the Centre, are seeking a reduction in VAT by states where the governments are led by Opposition parties. These states did not cut tax rates then.<\/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":[130,195,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-493102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493102","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=493102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}