{"id":958124,"date":"2025-08-28T07:40:04","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T02:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=958124"},"modified":"2025-08-28T08:37:46","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T03:07:46","slug":"cable-tv-body-urges-fm-to-slash-gst-to-5-amid-stress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/28\/cable-tv-body-urges-fm-to-slash-gst-to-5-amid-stress\/","title":{"rendered":"Cable TV body urges FM to slash GST to 5% amid stress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The All India Digital Cable Federation (AIDCF) has urged the government to reduce the goods and services tax (GST) on cable television services to 5% from the current 18%, citing mounting financial stress on operators and increasing costs for consumers. <\/p>\n<p>In a letter to finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman, the federation said the cut would align with Prime Minister Narendra Modi\u2019s vision of next-generation GST reforms while ensuring affordability for millions of households.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The All India Digital Cable Federation (AIDCF) has urged the government to reduce the goods and services tax (GST) on cable television services to 5% from the current 18%, citing mounting financial stress on operators and increasing costs for consumers. In a letter to finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman, the federation said the cut would align with Prime Minister Narendra Modi\u2019s vision of next-generation GST reforms while ensuring affordability for millions of households.<\/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":[58,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-958124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasting-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958124","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=958124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=958124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=958124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=958124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}