{"id":956325,"date":"2025-08-20T08:52:28","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T03:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=956325"},"modified":"2025-08-20T09:28:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T03:58:11","slug":"electronics-and-mobile-manufacturers-urge-to-place-mobile-phones-as-essential-goods-under-5-gst-slab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/20\/electronics-and-mobile-manufacturers-urge-to-place-mobile-phones-as-essential-goods-under-5-gst-slab\/","title":{"rendered":"Electronics and mobile manufacturers urge to place mobile phones as essential goods under 5% GST slab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: India\u2019s mobile and electronics manufacturers have urged the government to place mobile phones and their components in the 5% GST slab reserved for essential goods. The India Cellular &amp; Electronics Association (ICEA), which represents the industry, stressed that the current 18% GST on mobile phones is regressive. It argued that mobile phones\u2014the primary tool of digital access for over 90 crore Indians\u2014must be treated as necessities in the forthcoming GST reforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: India\u2019s mobile and electronics manufacturers have urged the government to place mobile phones and their components in the 5% GST slab reserved for essential goods. The India Cellular &amp; Electronics Association (ICEA), which represents the industry, stressed that the current 18% GST on mobile phones is regressive. It argued that mobile phones\u2014the primary tool of digital access for over 90 crore Indians\u2014must be treated as necessities in the forthcoming GST reforms.<\/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":[4,76,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-956325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-new-indian-express","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956325","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=956325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=956325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=956325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=956325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}