{"id":870,"date":"2025-01-21T00:03:34","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T18:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thulirvu.com\/?p=870"},"modified":"2025-01-21T00:03:34","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T18:33:34","slug":"discussion-to-consider-possibility-of-reducing-fuel-prices-soon-akd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vanninet.com\/?p=870","title":{"rendered":"Discussion to consider possibility of reducing fuel prices soon &#8211; AKD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Claiming that reducing fuel prices will take some time, President Anura Kumara Dissanayake said at a meeting that discussions will be held with relevant parties to consider the possibility of reducing fuel prices soon.<\/p>\n<p>He told a meeting in Katukurunda that a huge tax has been imposed on fuel after the debt of the Ceylon Petrioleum Corporation (CPC) was absorbed by the Treasury.<\/p>\n<p>The President said the Treasury has absorbed some USD 3 billion of CPC&#8217;s debt and a tax has been imposed on fuel to recover that loan and added that the tax cannot be removed until the loan is paid off.<\/p>\n<p>He said a meeting has been called with the Finance Ministry, the CPC, Bank of Ceylon and the People&#8217;s Bank to consider the possibility of extending the period of loan payment to reduce fuel prices soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Claiming that reducing fuel prices will take some time, President Anura Kumara Dissanayake said at a meeting that discussions will be held with relevant parties to consider the possibility of reducing fuel prices soon. He told a meeting in Katukurunda that a huge tax has been imposed on fuel after the debt of the Ceylon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":552,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,59],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-870","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local","8":"category-breaking"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanninet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanninet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanninet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanninet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanninet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=870"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vanninet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":871,"href":"https:\/\/vanninet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870\/revisions\/871"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanninet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanninet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanninet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanninet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}