{"id":561751,"date":"2023-03-10T12:22:38","date_gmt":"2023-03-10T06:52:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=561751"},"modified":"2023-03-10T12:52:47","modified_gmt":"2023-03-10T07:22:47","slug":"major-relief-to-airlines-as-maharashtra-cuts-vat-on-jet-fuel-for-mega-hub-mumbai-2-other-airports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/major-relief-to-airlines-as-maharashtra-cuts-vat-on-jet-fuel-for-mega-hub-mumbai-2-other-airports\/","title":{"rendered":"Major relief to airlines as Maharashtra cuts VAT on jet fuel for mega hub Mumbai &amp; 2 other airports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: In a major relief to Indian airlines, the Maharashtra government has cut VAT on aviation turbine fuel (ATF) from 25% to 18% at India\u2019s second biggest aviation hub \u2014 Mumbai \u2014 along with Pune and Raigad.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement was made by deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis in the state\u2019s Budget presented on Thursday. Now India\u2019s biggest hub \u2014 Delhi \u2014 remains among the few states that still charge very high tax at 25% on jet fuel.<\/p>\n<p>Indian carriers have historically faced high operating costs primarily due to steep ATF prices \u2014 caused by high base price and then even higher state and central taxes\/duties on that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: In a major relief to Indian airlines, the Maharashtra government has cut VAT on aviation turbine fuel (ATF) from 25% to 18% at India\u2019s second biggest aviation hub \u2014 Mumbai \u2014 along with Pune and Raigad. The announcement was made by deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis in the state\u2019s Budget presented on Thursday. Now India\u2019s biggest hub \u2014 Delhi \u2014 remains among the few states that still charge very high tax at 25% on jet fuel. Indian carriers have historically faced high operating costs primarily due to steep ATF prices \u2014 caused by high base price and then even [&hellip;]<\/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":[220,130,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-561751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561751","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=561751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561751\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}