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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | The Great Petro Robbery - Subodh Varma

The Great Petro Robbery - Subodh Varma

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published Published on Jun 17, 2021   modified Modified on Jun 18, 2021

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Modi government has been mercilessly hiking up taxes on petrol and diesel to take money from the people and boost its resources.

Since the prices of petroleum products were deregulated some years back and supposedly “linked” to markets, the central government has weaponised this to simply impose an indirect tax burden on the people.

Take the four big metros: Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai. On an average, petrol prices have increased from about Rs 58.91 per litre in 2014-15 to Rs 98.26 on June 15, 2021. That’s an increase of nearly 67% in seven years. Similarly, average diesel prices rose from Rs 48.26 per litre to Rs 91.01 per litre in the same period – a numbing hike of nearly 89%.

The full list of daily prices going back over the years is available with the Petroleum Planning and Analysis Cell under the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas.

India meets most of its petroleum products needs by importing crude oil in a certain combination from other countries and then refining it into various products including petrol, diesel, LPG, and a host of other useful chemicals. It has been often argued that domestic prices are increasing because of rising global prices of crude oil. Nothing could be further from the truth.

As the chart above shows, crude oil (Indian basket) prices increased by about 44% in the seven years past – from an average of $46.59 per barrel in 2014-15 to $66.95 per barrel in May 2021-22. Yet domestic prices increased much more, indicating that the sky-high prices of petrol and diesel have nothing to do with international prices of crude oil.

Then what is the reason behind these high prices? It is the ever increasing tax on production of various petroleum products that the government of India imposes on the oil marketing companies. These taxes include: central excise duties, integrated goods and services tax (IGST), central GST, customs duties, etc. There is also a cess on crude oil. But the bulk of tax is collected by the government in the form of central excise duties.

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