{"id":165612,"date":"2021-07-07T01:35:53","date_gmt":"2021-07-06T20:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=165612"},"modified":"2021-07-07T01:35:53","modified_gmt":"2021-07-06T20:05:53","slug":"25-tax-on-alcoholic-beverages-withdrawn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2021\/07\/07\/25-tax-on-alcoholic-beverages-withdrawn\/","title":{"rendered":"25% tax on alcoholic beverages withdrawn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, 6 Jul:<\/strong> Following a cabinet decision, the tax &amp; excise department has withdrawn the 25 percent tax on alcoholic beverages in the state.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The tax was levied during 2020 in order to generate additional revenue to meet the unexpected financial burden and expenditure arising out of Covid-19 pandemic,&#8221; the department said in a release.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The department, in compliance with the government order, also rationalized the existing slabs by re-calibrating the base price and enhancing the existing rates of excise duty.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;This way, additional revenue of approximately Rs 106 crores is expected to be generated,&#8221; Tax, Excise &amp; Narcotics Commissioner Kanki Darang said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The prevailing excise duty structure has not been revised for more than five years since November 2015, Darang said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITANAGAR, 6 Jul: Following a cabinet decision, the tax &amp; excise department has withdrawn the 25 percent tax on alcoholic beverages in the state. &#8220;The tax was levied during 2020 in order to generate additional revenue to meet the unexpected financial burden and expenditure arising out of Covid-19 pandemic,&#8221; the department said in a release. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-165612","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}