Chandigarh : The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Monday appealed to the Centre to bring petroleum products under the goods and services tax (GST) or cut oil prices further to give relief to common people.<\/p>\n
AAP\u2019 state chief spokesperson Malwinder Singh Kang said the Centre should do more to reduce rates as the state governments are passing through financial crisis and cannot impose any taxes. \u201cIn Punjab also, the state\u2019s financial position that we have inherited is not hidden from anyone, but we are still giving incentives to farmers and offering minimum support price on crops like moong, besides initiating a series of other welfare measures,\u201d he said on being asked about the Centre\u2019s appeal to the states to decrease the value-added tax (VAT) to provide relief to consumers.<\/p>\n
Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman had on Saturday announced a reduction in excise duty on petrol by \u20b98 per litre and on diesel by \u20b96 per litre to rein in inflation. Kerala, Maharashtra and Rajasthan are among the states which have reduced VAT after the centre\u2019s excise duty cut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Chandigarh : The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Monday appealed to the Centre to bring petroleum products under the goods and services tax (GST) or cut oil prices further to give relief to common people. AAP\u2019 state chief spokesperson Malwinder Singh Kang said the Centre should do more to reduce rates as the state governments are passing through financial crisis and cannot impose any taxes. \u201cIn Punjab also, the state\u2019s financial position that we have inherited is not hidden from anyone, but we are still giving incentives to farmers and offering minimum support price on crops like moong, besides initiating […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[141,130,183],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-493276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493276","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}