{"id":12129,"date":"2021-11-06T17:24:22","date_gmt":"2021-11-06T11:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper?p=12129"},"modified":"2021-11-06T17:24:22","modified_gmt":"2021-11-06T11:54:22","slug":"more-relief-odisha-cuts-down-vat-on-petrol-diesel-by-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/2021\/11\/06\/more-relief-odisha-cuts-down-vat-on-petrol-diesel-by-4\/","title":{"rendered":"More Relief: Odisha Cuts Down VAT on Petrol, Diesel by 4%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Odisha government reduced the value added tax (VAT) on petrol and diesel by 4 per cent with effect from yesterday midnight.<\/p>\n<p>The state Finance Department on Friday issued a notification cutting VAT on petrol to 28 per cent from 32 per cent and diesel from 28 per cent to 24 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>In view of the reduction of VAT and also on account of the excise duty by the Centre, the state government will bear a loss to the tune of Rs 2,000 crore per annum, an official said.<\/p>\n<p>The price of petrol in Bhubaneswar on Friday evening was Rs 104.91 per litre while diesel was being sold at a rate of Rs 94.51 per litre.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Thursday announced a reduction in the prices of petrol and diesel by Rs 3 per litre with effect from Friday midnight.<\/p>\n<p>In May 2020, the state government had hiked VAT on petrol from 26 per cent to 32 per cent, and on diesel from 26 per cent to 28 per cent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Odisha government reduced the value added tax (VAT) on petrol and diesel by 4 per cent with effect from yesterday midnight. The state Finance Department on Friday issued a notification cutting VAT on petrol to 28 per cent from 32 per cent and diesel from 28 per cent to 24 per cent. In view [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12126,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-odisha","category-main-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12129"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12130,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12129\/revisions\/12130"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}