ONGC Q1 profit rises 58% to ₹6,144 crore, misses estimates
Live MintNew Delhi: State-owned ONGC on Thursday reported its highest quarterly net profit in over four-and-a-half-years on sharp rise in prices for oil and gas it produced. Its net profit of ₹ 6,143.88 crore in the first quarter of the 2018-19 fiscal was 58.1% higher than ₹ 3,884.73 crore in the year-ago period, Oil and Natural Gas Corp said in a statement here. The country’s largest oil and gas producer said it deposited ₹ 2,695 crore service tax and GST under protest as it believes such taxes are not applicable on royalty paid by the firm to the government. “In the year 2017-18, the company had received show-cause notices at various work centres on account of service tax along with interest and penalty, on royalty on crude oil and natural gas levied under Oil Field Act, 1948,” ONGC said. ONGC said it had worked out service tax for the period from 1 April 2016 to 30 June 2017 along with interest of ₹ 2,294 crore.