{"id":645125,"date":"2025-09-06T09:39:40","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T04:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=645125"},"modified":"2025-09-06T10:52:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T05:22:18","slug":"tax-tweak-on-coal-yields-net-positive-for-discoms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/tax-tweak-on-coal-yields-net-positive-for-discoms\/","title":{"rendered":"Tax tweak on coal yields net positive for discoms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The removal of the compensation cess of Rs 400\/tonne on coal, along with the increase in the goods and services tax (GST) on the fuel to 18%, is expected to reduce the energy charge rate for power generation companies by about 17 paise\/unit on average, according to government officials and analysts. <\/p>\n<p>Although the GST rate increase might seem like a hike, it results in a net benefit for most grades of coal used in domestic coal-based power plants. &#8220;Overall, this is beneficial for India, as we have different grades of coal, and the weighted average cost comes down,&#8221; said a government official who requested anonymity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The removal of the compensation cess of Rs 400\/tonne on coal, along with the increase in the goods and services tax (GST) on the fuel to 18%, is expected to reduce the energy charge rate for power generation companies by about 17 paise\/unit on average, according to government officials and analysts. Although the GST rate increase might seem like a hike, it results in a net benefit for most grades of coal used in domestic coal-based power plants. &#8220;Overall, this is beneficial for India, as we have different grades of coal, and the weighted average cost comes down,&#8221; said a [&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":[194,130,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-645125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coal-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645125","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=645125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}