{"id":1029908,"date":"2026-08-20T07:36:45","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T02:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1029908"},"modified":"2026-08-20T07:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T02:12:08","slug":"sc-rejects-gst-department-review-plea-telecom-firms-get-relief-on-tower-tax-credit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/20\/sc-rejects-gst-department-review-plea-telecom-firms-get-relief-on-tower-tax-credit\/","title":{"rendered":"SC rejects GST department review plea, telecom firms get relief on tower tax credit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a big relief to telecom companies, including Bharti Airtel, the Supreme Court Wednesday rejected the Central Goods and Services Tax Department&#8217;s petition seeking review of its last year&#8217;s decision which held that telecom towers qualify as &#8220;movable&#8221; property and, thus eligible for input tax credit (ITC) under the income tax laws. <\/p>\n<p>A bench of Justice Vikram Nath and Justice Prasanna B. Varale while dismissing the department&#8217;s review petition said: &#8220;We have carefully considered the review petitions as well as the grounds set out therein&#8230;Having examined the impugned order in light of the grounds raised,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a big relief to telecom companies, including Bharti Airtel, the Supreme Court Wednesday rejected the Central Goods and Services Tax Department&#8217;s petition seeking review of its last year&#8217;s decision which held that telecom towers qualify as &#8220;movable&#8221; property and, thus eligible for input tax credit (ITC) under the income tax laws. A bench of Justice Vikram Nath and Justice Prasanna B. Varale while dismissing the department&#8217;s review petition said: &#8220;We have carefully considered the review petitions as well as the grounds set out therein&#8230;Having examined the impugned order in light of the grounds raised,<\/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":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1029908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029908","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=1029908"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1029922,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029908\/revisions\/1029922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1029908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1029908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1029908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}