Image Source : PTI (FILE) No proposal to scale back tax on petrol, diesel: UP authorities
There is not any proposal to scale back tax on petrol and diesel as income is required to make sure betterment of well being companies and different growth works as a result of COVID-19 pandemic, the Uttar Pradesh authorities mentioned on Thursday.
Replying to Samajwadi Party (SP) member Narendra Verma through the query hour within the state Assembly, Cabinet Minister Satish Mahana mentioned, “There is no proposal under consideration to reduce tax on petrol and diesel in view of the resources and financial requirements for improving health facilities and other developmental works keeping in mind the COVID-19 pandemic.”
Currently, customers in Uttar Pradesh are getting diesel at a lower cost than the states of Andhra Pradesh, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Telangana, Odisha, Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Bihar, Tamil Nadu, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Punjab and Uttarakhand, he mentioned.
Similarly, petrol is offered at decrease costs right here as in comparison with Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Bihar, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Punjab, Orissa, Delhi, Uttarakhand and Chhattisgarh, he added.
About the lower in LPG costs, the minister mentioned because the Goods and Services Tax (GST) got here in drive on July 1, 2017, the state has no proper to scale back the tax. It is for the GST council to resolve on it, he mentioned. The opposition Congress and SP staged a walkout, saying the federal government was “anti-farmers, anti-women, and anti-common man”.
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