{"id":973426,"date":"2025-11-12T09:34:37","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T04:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=973426"},"modified":"2025-11-12T10:44:53","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T05:14:53","slug":"one-click-that-costs-kerala-crores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/11\/12\/one-click-that-costs-kerala-crores\/","title":{"rendered":"One click that costs Kerala crores"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KOCHI: When a Malayali binge-watcher quickly signs up on an OTT app and picks Andaman &amp; Nicobar Islands from the dropdown menu \u2014 simply because it comes first \u2014 the money he pays in GST doesn\u2019t reach Kerala. It goes to Andaman. And that tiny click, repeated thousands of times across online purchases, is quietly bleeding Kerala\u2019s tax revenue dry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KOCHI: When a Malayali binge-watcher quickly signs up on an OTT app and picks Andaman &amp; Nicobar Islands from the dropdown menu \u2014 simply because it comes first \u2014 the money he pays in GST doesn\u2019t reach Kerala. It goes to Andaman. And that tiny click, repeated thousands of times across online purchases, is quietly bleeding Kerala\u2019s tax revenue dry.<\/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":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-973426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973426","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=973426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}