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Where your rupee goes · fuel
as of 2026-07-01 · numbers move
one litre

Most of your petrol money never was petrol.

Pick a fuel, then your state — watch where every rupee of the price actually lands. Central excise is the same nationwide; the rest is your state.

Your state
22%
Indian value capture
Barely Indian.
STAYS IN INDIA
₹22
22% · refining, OMC, dealer
TAX
₹36
36% · excise + state VAT
LEAVES INDIA
₹43
42% · imported crude

In Delhi, a ₹102 litre of petrol = ₹43 imported crude, ₹36 tax (₹20 central excise + ₹17 state VAT/cess), and only ₹22 of actual Indian value-add — refining, oil-company margin, and the dealer's ₹3.83 commission.

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Same crude. Same central tax. Your state decides the rest.

Central excise (₹20/L) is identical nationwide. The gap between states is pure state VAT. Total tax loaded onto one litre of petrol, heaviest first.

Fill up in Andhra Pradesh and you hand the taxman ₹16 more per litre than someone in Gujarat— for the identical fuel. That's ₹573 a 35-litre tankful, decided entirely by which side of a state line you pump on.
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How we know.

Every number is sourced and tiered, same as any product on Parakhi. The taxes are hard government data. The crude-vs-refining split of the pre-tax base is a modelled estimate — flagged as Tier 2.

T1PPAC — VAT / Sales Tax rates on petrol & diesel, by stateppac.gov.in
T1PPAC — Price build-up of petrol & diesel (dealer price, excise, commission)ppac.gov.in
T2Crude landed-cost share of dealer price — modelled from OMC product-price linkage (~85–88% import dependence)estimate

Reconstructed pump price = national dealer base + central excise + dealer commission + state VAT/cess; actual pump price varies ±₹1–2 with local freight and daily revision. Some states levy “X% or ₹Y//L, whichever higher” — we show the ad-valorem rate. Parakhi is open-source, MIT.