
Losses of state-run OMCs to ease amid lower crude oil prices: Moody's
India's windfall tax on exports of locally-produced oil has helped reduce the state-owned refining and marketing companies' marketing losses, says Moody's.
India's windfall tax on exports of locally-produced oil has helped reduce the state-owned refining and marketing companies' marketing losses, says Moody's.
The tax rates are revised every fortnight based on prevailing international rates.
On July 1 this year, the Indian government joined a group of nations that imposed a windfall tax on crude oil owing to soaring energy prices.
State-run oil marketing companies have booked a combined loss of ₹27,276 crore in the first six months of the ongoing financial year, says Union minister Hardeep Puri.
HPCL posted a back-to-back quarterly loss amid continued decline in margins due to a freeze on retail prices of petrol and diesel.
In the sixth round of revision, the windfall tax on domestic crude oil has been slashed by 24% to ₹8,000 per tonne from ₹10,500.
The Centre has reduced tax on domestically-produced crude oil to ₹10,500 per tonne from ₹13,300 per tonne; tax levy on diesel lowered to ₹10 per litre.
Shares of ONGC, Reliance, Adani Total Gas, Indraprastha Gas, CPCL, and MRPL saw selling pressure after the govt revised the windfall tax on crude oil
The govt increases the export levy on diesel to ₹7 per litre from ₹5 per litre. The ₹2/litre export tax on aviation turbine fuel imposed again
Around 76% of respondents to a survey say they will be able to afford less in coming years as higher import costs will get reflected in products they buy