{"id":4013,"date":"2025-04-07T16:32:36","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T11:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eqwires.com\/tutorials\/?p=4013"},"modified":"2025-04-07T16:32:37","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T11:02:37","slug":"govt-hikes-excise-duty-on-petrol-diesel-by-%e2%82%b92-ltr-retail-prices-unchanged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eqwires.com\/tutorials\/govt-hikes-excise-duty-on-petrol-diesel-by-%e2%82%b92-ltr-retail-prices-unchanged\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt hikes excise duty on petrol, diesel by \u20b92\/ltr; retail prices unchanged"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p id=\"0\">The Government of India, on Monday, raised excise duty on petrol and diesel by \u20b92 per litre, according to an official notification by the Department of Revenue, Ministry of Finance.<small>\u00a0<\/small>The order stated that the change will take effect from April 8. The excise duty on petrol was increased to Rs 13 per litre and that on diesel to Rs 10, according to the order.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"586\" height=\"477\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eqwires.com\/tutorials\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4014\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eqwires.com\/tutorials\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image.png 586w, https:\/\/www.eqwires.com\/tutorials\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-300x244.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 586px) 85vw, 586px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"0\">While the excise duty has been increased,\u00a0the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas has confirmed that\u00a0there will be no burden on the common man\u00a0as there will be no increase in retail prices of petrol and diesel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"583\" height=\"162\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eqwires.com\/tutorials\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4015\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eqwires.com\/tutorials\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-1.png 583w, https:\/\/www.eqwires.com\/tutorials\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-1-300x83.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 583px) 85vw, 583px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"0\">Earlier in December 2024, the government had scrapped the windfall profit tax on domestic crude and fuel exports, first imposed on July 1, 2022, amid falling global oil prices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"0\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eqwires.com\/tutorials\/who-is-the-best-sebi-registered-investment-advisor-in-i\">Eqwires Research Analyst<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-dark-gray-color has-text-color\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eqwires.com\/\">Top-notch SEBI registered research analyst<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-dark-gray-color has-text-color\"><strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eqwires.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Best SEBI registered Intraday tips provider <\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-dark-gray-color has-text-color\"><a href=\"mailto:info@eqwires.com\"><strong>info@eqwires.com<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-dark-red-color has-text-color\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/eqwires\">Telegram&nbsp;<\/a>|&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/eqwires\/\">Facebook&nbsp;<\/a>|&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/Eqwires\">Instagram<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-dark-red-color has-text-color\"><strong>Call: +91 9624421555 \/&nbsp;<em>+91 9624461555<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eqwires.com\/\">www.eqwires.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Government of India, on Monday, raised excise duty on petrol and diesel by \u20b92 per litre, according to an official notification by the Department of Revenue, Ministry of Finance.\u00a0The order stated that the change will take effect from April 8. The excise duty on petrol was increased to Rs 13 per litre and that on diesel to Rs 10, according to the order. While the excise duty has been increased,\u00a0the Ministry of Petroleum and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eqwires.com\/tutorials\/govt-hikes-excise-duty-on-petrol-diesel-by-%e2%82%b92-ltr-retail-prices-unchanged\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Govt hikes excise duty on petrol, diesel by \u20b92\/ltr; retail prices unchanged&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4016,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-best-sebi-registered-advisory-company"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eqwires.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eqwires.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eqwires.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eqwires.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eqwires.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4013"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eqwires.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4017,"href":"https:\/\/www.eqwires.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4013\/revisions\/4017"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eqwires.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eqwires.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eqwires.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eqwires.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}