{"id":1011878,"date":"2026-06-03T09:30:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T04:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1011878"},"modified":"2026-06-03T09:54:52","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T04:24:52","slug":"regulatory-setbacks-push-gaming-firms-towards-diversification-overseas-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/03\/regulatory-setbacks-push-gaming-firms-towards-diversification-overseas-expansion\/","title":{"rendered":"Regulatory setbacks push gaming firms towards diversification, overseas expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s leading gaming companies are ramping up investments in e-sports, game publishing, digital entertainment and international markets as regulatory and tax pressures continue to reshape the domestic online gaming industry. <\/p>\n<p>The recent Supreme Court verdict upholding the government&#8217;s decision to levy 28% GST on the full face value of bets has emerged as the latest setback for the sector, which had already been hit by the government&#8217;s move to ban real-money online gaming in 2025. Industry estimates suggest the sector&#8217;s total tax liabilities could exceed Rs 2 lakh crore, including pending tax demands, penalties and interest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s leading gaming companies are ramping up investments in e-sports, game publishing, digital entertainment and international markets as regulatory and tax pressures continue to reshape the domestic online gaming industry. The recent Supreme Court verdict upholding the government&#8217;s decision to levy 28% GST on the full face value of bets has emerged as the latest setback for the sector, which had already been hit by the government&#8217;s move to ban real-money online gaming in 2025. Industry estimates suggest the sector&#8217;s total tax liabilities could exceed Rs 2 lakh crore, including pending tax demands, penalties and interest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1011878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1011878"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1011896,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011878\/revisions\/1011896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1011878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1011878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1011878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}