{"id":956164,"date":"2025-08-20T07:04:02","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T01:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=956164"},"modified":"2025-08-20T07:10:05","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T01:40:05","slug":"mobile-phone-industry-bats-for-5-gst-slab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/20\/mobile-phone-industry-bats-for-5-gst-slab\/","title":{"rendered":"Mobile phone industry bats for 5% GST slab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The mobile phone industry has called for a 5% GST slab for handsets as the government works on overhauling the rates in the coming months. The mobile phones currently are placed under the 18% slab, which has been termed as \u201cregressive\u201d by the industry because phones these days are a necessity and not an aspirational item.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The mobile phone industry has called for a 5% GST slab for handsets as the government works on overhauling the rates in the coming months. The mobile phones currently are placed under the 18% slab, which has been termed as \u201cregressive\u201d by the industry because phones these days are a necessity and not an aspirational item.<\/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-956164","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\/956164","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=956164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=956164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=956164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=956164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}