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Home | Business | Higher Petroleum Taxes To Rescue Govts Stimulus Packages This Year

Higher petroleum taxes to rescue govt’s stimulus packages this year

Petroleum sector met a large part of actual fund infusion required to support the biggest ever Rs 20 lakh crore economic package announcement by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in May, 2020

By IANS
Published Date - 06:50 PM, Mon - 5 July 21
Higher petroleum taxes to rescue govt’s stimulus packages this year
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New Delhi: The petroleum sector will once again provide big support to the revenue starved government that is looking for another dose of a fiscal stimulus package to revive the economy hit by Covid-19 disruptions.

The sector met a large part of actual fund infusion required to support the biggest ever Rs 20 lakh crore economic package announcement by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in May, 2020 to revive the economy hit hard by the Covid-19 pandemic.

A Rs 6.29 lakh crore stimulus has already been announced by the government again in 2021 and more is likely to come in the coming days.

Sources said that taxes on petroleum products would again come to the government’s aid this year and if need be, the Centre could raise the excise duty on petroleum and diesel further to the ceiling cap decided last year to raise additional revenue for Covid relief.

This, however, would hit fuel consumers badly. Consumers are already seeing petrol and diesel prices going through the roof in most parts of 2021 reaching historic high levels of over Rs 100 a litre across the country.

In FY21, the Centre’s earnings through excise duty on petroleum products stood at Rs 3,71,725.77 crore, almost double the levels of previous fiscal (FY20) at Rs 2,23,057.33 crore.

What increased the revenue from petroleum was increasing the excise duty on petrol and diesel by an unprecedented level of Rs 10 and Rs 13 per litre respectively on May 5, 2020.

Also, as per the parliamentary approval taken last year, the government can further raise duty on petrol and diesel by Rs 3-6 per litre, thereby raising another Rs 50,000-60,000 crore. This could take excise earnings from petroleum products closer to Rs 5 lakh crore in FY22.

“If economic recovery is swift this year, there could be tax bonanza for the Centre from petroleum sector. This could be handy in meeting its other important expenditure commitments this year. But petrol and diesel prices crossing century mark in various parts of the country, government should also look at providing relief to fuel consumers by reducing the high level of excise duty of the two products,” said an oil sector expert.

For the current fiscal, government’s borrowings target has been kept at last year’s level of Rs 12 lakh crore.


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