{"id":1034709,"date":"2026-09-12T08:40:49","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T03:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1034709"},"modified":"2026-09-12T09:06:04","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T03:36:04","slug":"iamai-wants-5-gst-dropped-for-app-based-rides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/12\/iamai-wants-5-gst-dropped-for-app-based-rides\/","title":{"rendered":"IAMAI wants 5% GST dropped for app-based rides"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The app-based mobility industry has pitched for exemption from the 5% goods and services tax (GST), arguing that the levy is being imposed on platforms that often do not collect fares from passengers. <\/p>\n<p>In a representation to the government and the Goods and Services Tax Council, the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) said the current tax structure does not reflect how several ride-hailing platforms actually operate. <\/p>\n<p>On these platforms, a driver collects the fare directly from the passenger and the app acts primarily as a technology platform connecting the two, it said. Yet, the industry body said the platform is required to account for the 5% GST on the value of the ride.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The app-based mobility industry has pitched for exemption from the 5% goods and services tax (GST), arguing that the levy is being imposed on platforms that often do not collect fares from passengers. In a representation to the government and the Goods and Services Tax Council, the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) said the current tax structure does not reflect how several ride-hailing platforms actually operate. On these platforms, a driver collects the fare directly from the passenger and the app acts primarily as a technology platform connecting the two, it said. Yet, the industry body [&hellip;]<\/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":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1034709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034709","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=1034709"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1034734,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034709\/revisions\/1034734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1034709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1034709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1034709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}