{"id":956224,"date":"2025-08-20T07:40:19","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T02:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=956224"},"modified":"2025-08-20T07:50:32","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T02:20:32","slug":"mobile-phone-makers-call-for-5-gst-slab-for-handsets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/20\/mobile-phone-makers-call-for-5-gst-slab-for-handsets\/","title":{"rendered":"Mobile phone makers call for 5% GST slab for handsets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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<p>The mobile phones were initially placed under the 12% GST slab rate in 2017 as a transitional compromise as before the implementation of GST mechanism, the combined excise and VAT incidence averaged around 6%, which could have made the 5% slab ideal for the handsets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. The mobile phones were initially placed under the 12% GST slab rate in 2017 as a transitional compromise as before the implementation of GST mechanism, the combined excise and VAT incidence averaged around 6%, which could have made the 5% slab ideal for the [&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":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-956224","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\/956224","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=956224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=956224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=956224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=956224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}