The Centre should further reduce taxes on fuels, Chief Minister M.K. Stalin said on Tuesday.
Addressing a meeting near Attur to celebrate the first anniversary of the DMK coming to power, he said that though many had raised doubts whether the DMK government would be able to reduce fuel taxes, as promised in the party’s election manifesto, it did reduce the tax on petrol by ₹3.
Referring to the recent tax reduction announced by Centre, he said one year after the State reduced its taxes, the Centre reduced its tax on petrol by ₹8 and diesel by ₹6. Whenever the Centre reduced its tax, the State’s tax rates got reduced, and the State taxes on petrol and diesel got reduced by ₹1.5 and ₹1 respectively, he said. Therefore, it was not right to say only the Centre had reduced its taxes on fuel.
