The levy on crude oil produced by corporations reminiscent of Oil and Pure Fuel Company (ONGC) has been elevated to ₹2,100 per tonne from ₹1,700 per tonne. File.
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The federal government has raised the windfall revenue tax levied on domestically produced crude oil in addition to on the export of diesel and ATF, according to firming worldwide oil costs, in line with an official order.
The levy on crude oil produced by corporations reminiscent of Oil and Pure Fuel Company (ONGC) has been elevated to ₹2,100 per tonne from ₹1,700 per tonne, the order dated January 2, stated.
Crude oil pumped out of the bottom and from under the seabed is refined and transformed into gasoline like petrol, diesel and aviation turbine gasoline (ATF).
The federal government has additionally raised the tax on the export of diesel to ₹6.5 per litre, from ₹5 and the identical on abroad shipments of ATF to ₹4.5 a litre, from ₹1.5 a litre.
The brand new tax charges are efficient from January 3.
Tax charges have been cut at the last fortnightly review on December 16, following a decline in world crude oil costs. Worldwide oil costs have since then firmed up, necessitating the elevating of windfall tax.
India first imposed windfall revenue taxes on July 1, becoming a member of a rising variety of nations that tax tremendous regular income of power corporations. At the moment, export duties of ₹6 per litre ($12 per barrel) every have been levied on petrol and ATF and ₹13 a litre ($26 a barrel) on diesel.
A ₹23,250 per tonne ($40 per barrel) windfall revenue tax on home crude manufacturing was additionally levied.
The export tax on petrol has since been scrapped.
The tax charges are reviewed each fortnight based mostly on common oil costs within the earlier two weeks.
Reliance Industries Ltd, which operates India’s largest only-for-export oil refinery at Jamnagar in Gujarat, and Rosneft-backed Nayara Power are main exporters of gasoline within the nation.
The federal government levies tax on windfall income made by oil producers on any value they get above a threshold of $75 per barrel.
The levy on gasoline exports relies on cracks or margins that refiners earn on abroad shipments. These margins are primarily a distinction between the worldwide oil value realised and the price.
