{"id":959773,"date":"2025-09-06T09:12:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T03:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=959773"},"modified":"2025-09-06T10:19:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T04:49:04","slug":"gst-on-mobile-phones-after-reforms-will-your-next-phone-get-cheaper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/06\/gst-on-mobile-phones-after-reforms-will-your-next-phone-get-cheaper\/","title":{"rendered":"GST on mobile phones after reforms: Will your next phone get cheaper?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What really got cheaper, and what didn\u2019t, after India\u2019s big GST revamp? From September 22, a leaner tax structure will take effect, cutting four slabs down to two, with a hefty 40% bracket carved out for luxury goods like high-end cars, tobacco, and cigarettes. Most everyday products will see lower taxes meant to spark spending and lift the economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What really got cheaper, and what didn\u2019t, after India\u2019s big GST revamp? From September 22, a leaner tax structure will take effect, cutting four slabs down to two, with a hefty 40% bracket carved out for luxury goods like high-end cars, tobacco, and cigarettes. Most everyday products will see lower taxes meant to spark spending and lift the economy.<\/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-959773","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\/959773","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=959773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=959773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=959773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=959773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}