Not possible to bring petrol, diesel under GST now: Sushil Modi

TIL Desk/Business/New Delhi/ BJP leader Sushil Kumar Modi on Wednesday said it is not possible to bring petrol and diesel under the GST regime for the next eight to 10 years as it would cause an annual revenue loss of Rs 2 lakh crore to all states. Centre and states collectively collect over Rs 5 lakh crore tax on petroleum products, Modi told the Rajya Sabha while participating in a discussion on the Finance Bill 2021.

The statement assumes significance in view of the rise in petrol price for the past over one year which even touched Rs 100 per litre in some states. In the first reduction in rates in over a year, petrol price on Wednesday was cut by 18 paise per litre and diesel by 17 paise a litre as international oil prices tumbled to the lowest since early February.Petrol price was cut to Rs 90.99 a litre in Delhi from Rs 91.17 per litre.

Diesel now comes for Rs 81.30 a litre in the national capital, down from Rs 81.47 previously.  Rates have been reduced across the country and vary from state-to-state depending on the local incidence of taxation (VAT). This is the first reduction in fuel prices in over a year. The prices were last reduced on March 16, 2020.