{"id":644111,"date":"2025-08-25T08:59:36","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T03:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=644111"},"modified":"2025-08-25T09:34:46","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T04:04:46","slug":"a-tax-cut-with-unintended-impact-for-indias-ev-momentum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/a-tax-cut-with-unintended-impact-for-indias-ev-momentum\/","title":{"rendered":"A tax cut with unintended impact for India\u2019s EV momentum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian electric vehicle (EV) sector, particularly the small car and hatchback segment, may soon face a speed bump. The proposed goods and services tax (GST) recast could boost the small passenger car market. Small cars are likely to be placed in the 18% tax slab, substantially reducing the tax burden on them, as per a recent ET report based on information from sources. Small cars of 4 metres and less in length and engine capacity up to 1,200 cc (petrol, CNG and LPG) now attract 28% GST and 1% cess. Large cars and SUVs are likely to face the special rate of 40%, sources told ET. Currently, these vehicles attract 43-50% tax, which includes GST and cess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian electric vehicle (EV) sector, particularly the small car and hatchback segment, may soon face a speed bump. The proposed goods and services tax (GST) recast could boost the small passenger car market. Small cars are likely to be placed in the 18% tax slab, substantially reducing the tax burden on them, as per a recent ET report based on information from sources. Small cars of 4 metres and less in length and engine capacity up to 1,200 cc (petrol, CNG and LPG) now attract 28% GST and 1% cess. Large cars and SUVs are likely to face the [&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":[130,239,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-644111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644111","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=644111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}