{
  "id": 11128816,
  "title": "Vietnam extends fuel tax relief measures until end-2026",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/01/vietnam-extends-fuel-tax-relief-measures-until-end-2026-11128816",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-10-01T06:34:34.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Business Recorder",
    "slug": "business-recorder",
    "url": "https://www.brecorder.com/news/40442154/vietnam-extends-fuel-tax-relief-measures-until-end-2026"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Hanoi, Vietnam has decided to prolong a set of fuel-tax relief measures until the end of 2026, according to a government statement released on Thursday. The extension of the package aims to ensure energy security, stabilize the economy, curb inflation, and support business activity, all while encouraging companies to diversify their fuel import sources and lessen reliance on traditional suppliers.\n\nThe resolution signed on September 30 extends reduced import tariffs on gasoline, diesel, fuel oil, jet fuel, and key refinery feedstocks until December 31. The tariff cuts include a significant reduction in the preferential import duty on gasoline from 10% to 0%. Diesel, fuel oil, kerosene, and jet fuel tariffs remain at 0% rather than the standard 7%. Additionally, tariffs on several petrochemical feedstocks have also been reduced to zero.\n\nBesides these tariff reductions, the environmental protection tax rate and the value-added tax rate for gasoline and petroleum products will remain at zero until the end of 2026. The fuel tax relief measures were first introduced in March and have since been extended multiple times.",
  "summary": "HANOI: Vietnam is extending a package of fuel-tax relief measures to the end of 2026, after having introduced them earlier this year to help stabilise the domestic market amid supply concerns due to war in the Middle East. Extending the package would help ensure energy security, stabilise the economy, contain inflation and support business activity, while allowing companies to diversify fuel…",
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      {
        "outlet": "Channel News Asia",
        "title": "Vietnam extends fuel tax relief measures until end-2026",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/01/vietnam-extends-fuel-tax-relief-measures-until-end-2026",
        "published": "2026-10-01T03:22:49.000Z"
      }
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}