{"id":214421,"date":"2020-05-04T09:18:19","date_gmt":"2020-05-04T09:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/151.106.38.4\/2020\/05\/04\/pcci-appeals-govt-on-covid-cess-decision\/"},"modified":"2020-05-04T09:18:19","modified_gmt":"2020-05-04T09:18:19","slug":"pcci-appeals-govt-on-covid-cess-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2020\/05\/04\/pcci-appeals-govt-on-covid-cess-decision\/","title":{"rendered":"PCCI appeals govt on COVID cess decision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\/old_site\/http:\/\/new.nagalandpost.com\/cms\/gall_content\/no_images_650x.jpg><\/p>\n<p>Asserting that COVID-19 cess on fuel could increase government funds to fight the pandemic, but would &ldquo;minimise the benefits of the consumers&rdquo;, the Phek Chamber of Commerce &amp; Industries (PCCI) has maintained that if decision was not rolled back immediately, food prices were expected to increase.<\/p>\n<div>In a press release, PCCI president Kuvethisa Hoshi and general secretary Chetezo Akami have, therefore, urged the state government &ldquo;to take this as an opportunity to show humanity, and positively utilise God-gifted quality in leading our people, our state in this hour of pandemic crisis.&rdquo;<\/div>\n<div>When the entire world is fighting a pandemic, PCCI said the state government cannot &ldquo;pause to collect cess\/tax from its populous&rdquo; as petrol and diesel cess was directly hitting the cost of transportation, essential commodities and other goods.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>Meanwhile, the PCCI has extended support to the representation submitted by Confederation of Nagaland Chamber of Commerce &amp; Industry (CNCCI) that sought certain relief measures for the business community in distress.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PCCI appeals govt on COVID cess decision<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[679],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-nagaland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}