{"id":600125,"date":"2023-08-28T11:22:57","date_gmt":"2023-08-28T05:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=600125"},"modified":"2023-08-28T13:31:40","modified_gmt":"2023-08-28T08:01:40","slug":"with-tesla-push-india-mulls-import-tax-cut-if-ev-makers-build-locally-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/with-tesla-push-india-mulls-import-tax-cut-if-ev-makers-build-locally-3\/","title":{"rendered":"With Tesla push, India mulls import tax cut if EV makers build locally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India is working on a new electric vehicle policy that would slash import taxes for automakers that commit to some local manufacturing, following a proposal by Tesla which is considering entering the domestic market, people with direct knowledge said.<\/p>\n<p>The policy being considered could allow automakers to import fully-built EVs into India at a reduced tax as low as 15 per cent, compared to the current 100 per cent that applies to cars which cost above $40,000 and 70 per cent for the rest, said two of the sources, including a senior Indian government official.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India is working on a new electric vehicle policy that would slash import taxes for automakers that commit to some local manufacturing, following a proposal by Tesla which is considering entering the domestic market, people with direct knowledge said. The policy being considered could allow automakers to import fully-built EVs into India at a reduced tax as low as 15 per cent, compared to the current 100 per cent that applies to cars which cost above $40,000 and 70 per cent for the rest, said two of the sources, including a senior Indian government official.<\/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":[146,130,234],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-600125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600125","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=600125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}