{"id":17922,"date":"2020-05-05T18:33:47","date_gmt":"2020-05-05T09:33:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/05\/india-imposes-70-alcohol-tax-as-covid-19-lockdown-relaxed"},"modified":"2020-05-05T18:33:47","modified_gmt":"2020-05-05T09:33:47","slug":"delhi-imposes-70-corona-tax-on-alcohol-after-crowding-at-shops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=17922","title":{"rendered":"Delhi imposes 70% &#8216;corona&#8217; tax on alcohol after crowding at shops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Special corona fee\u2019 levied to deter gatherings after police called in to break up crowds<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Officials in India\u2019s capital have imposed a special tax of 70% on retail alcohol purchases to deter large gatherings at stores as authorities ease a six-week lockdown imposed to slow the spread of coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>Taxes on alcohol are a key contributor to the revenue of many of India\u2019s 36 states and federal territories, most of which are running short of funds because of the lengthy disruption in economic activity caused by the virus.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/05\/india-imposes-70-alcohol-tax-as-covid-19-lockdown-relaxed\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Special corona fee\u2019 levied to deter gatherings after police called in to break up crowdsCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageOfficials in India\u2019s capital have imposed a special tax of 70% on retail alcohol purchases to deter lar&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1289,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1069,62,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-india","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1289"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17922"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17923,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17922\/revisions\/17923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}