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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | How much will a cow cess of Re.1 on petrol generate? -Ragini Bhuyan and Tadit Kundu

How much will a cow cess of Re.1 on petrol generate? -Ragini Bhuyan and Tadit Kundu

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published Published on Jul 6, 2017   modified Modified on Jul 6, 2017
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A cow cess of even Re.1 per litre of petrol will be enough to generate funds that will exceed the entire annual budgets of several Union ministries

About two weeks ago, Subramanian Swamy, a Rajya Sabha member from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) called for a cow cess of Re1 on petrol to fund gaushalas or cow shelters across the country. Swamy made the comment towards the end of his speech on the welfare of ‘Bos Indicus’, or the Indian cow, at an event organised by the Virat Hindustan Sangam (VHS) at the Bombay Stock Exchange.

In his speech, Swamy did not elaborate if the cess should be Re1 per litre of petrol. However, speaking over the phone, the secretary of VHS, Jagdish Shetty, confirmed that Swamy implied a cess of Re1 per litre. Later, over SMS, Swamy clarified that he stood by his demand for a cow cess, and added that the exact amount of cess, and whether it would be applicable to all refined petroleum products (which would include petrol, diesel, naptha, LPG, aviation turbine fuel or ATF and bitumen) was open to debate.

How much money would be generated by a cow cess of Re1 on petrol? Data from the Petroleum Planning and Analysis Cell (PPAC) of the ministry of petroleum and natural gas puts the consumption of petrol alone at over 32 billion litres in the fiscal year ending March 2017. Consumption of diesel, both high speed and light oil varieties, amounted to a little over 86 billion litres over the same period. A cess of Re1 per litre on petrol alone will thus generate annual revenues of over Rs3,000 crore. As chart 1 shows, this amount is greater than the budgets of several Union ministries such as the Union ministry of environment and forests and the Union ministry of culture.

For the time being, let us assume that this cess will only be borne by those directly purchasing petrol from retail outlets. Data from the Household Survey on India’s Citizen Environment & Consumer Economy (ICE 360° survey) put the share of car-owning households at 11%, more than double the 5% figure that was recorded in census 2011. The ICE 360° survey was conducted by the independent not-for-profit organization, People Research on India’s Consumer Economy. Any cess on petrol would also affect two-wheeler owners. As of 2016, the share of households owning two-wheelers was 36%. Using the absolute numbers of households from census 2011, we find that close to 120 million households across the country would be directly affected by a cow cess on petrol.

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