{"id":587288,"date":"2023-06-27T10:04:10","date_gmt":"2023-06-27T04:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=587288"},"modified":"2023-06-27T10:50:29","modified_gmt":"2023-06-27T05:20:29","slug":"jyotiraditya-scindia-writes-to-five-states-to-lower-vat-on-jet-fuel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/jyotiraditya-scindia-writes-to-five-states-to-lower-vat-on-jet-fuel\/","title":{"rendered":"Jyotiraditya Scindia writes to five states to lower VAT on jet fuel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Union aviation minister Jyotiraditya Scindia has yet again urged five states to lower VAT on aviation turbine fuel (ATF). While 19 states and UTs have moved to the low VAT regime after Scindia\u2019s intervention, five states still continue to levy high rates with Bihar and Tamil Nadu at 29%; Delhi and West Bengal at 25% and Assam at 23.65%. With finmin not yet conceding to aviation ministry\u2019s old request to lower excise on ATF, the only way to rationalise jet fuel prices is tax cut by states. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cScindia has again written to the five states on Monday. All other states have agreed to lower tax on ATF and are reaping the benefit of that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Union aviation minister Jyotiraditya Scindia has yet again urged five states to lower VAT on aviation turbine fuel (ATF). While 19 states and UTs have moved to the low VAT regime after Scindia\u2019s intervention, five states still continue to levy high rates with Bihar and Tamil Nadu at 29%; Delhi and West Bengal at 25% and Assam at 23.65%. With finmin not yet conceding to aviation ministry\u2019s old request to lower excise on ATF, the only way to rationalise jet fuel prices is tax cut by states. \u201cScindia has again written to the five states on Monday. All [&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":[220,130,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-587288","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\/587288","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=587288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}