{"id":96046,"date":"2017-07-03T19:13:08","date_gmt":"2017-07-03T13:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=96046"},"modified":"2017-07-03T19:13:08","modified_gmt":"2017-07-03T13:43:08","slug":"1100-theaters-closed-against-gst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/1100-theaters-closed-against-gst\/","title":{"rendered":"1100 theaters closed against GST"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">1,100 cinema halls and multiplexes across Tamil Nadu stopped screening films on Monday with distributors and theatre owners going on an indefinite strike against an additional 30% tax over and above the newly implemented GST.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As the goods and services tax (GST), India\u2019s biggest tax reform, was launched on July 1, the state government slipped in a 30% corporation tax on ticket sales. The tax would cripple the film industry, sources said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWe are against the corporation tax which is 30%. This is in addition to the GST rates. We are not against the GST. We welcome it,\u201d Tamil Nadu Theatre Owners and Distributors Association president Abhirami Ramanathan said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-96047 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Tamilnadu-Theaters.jpg\" alt=\"1100 theaters closed against GST\" width=\"620\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The GST replaces more than a dozen central and local levies, unifying India into a common market. It subsumed entertainment tax as well, so the Tamil Nadu government rechristened it as corporation tax, asking cinema owners to pay up.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ramanathan sought its withdrawal, saying the government in neighbouring Kerala had withdrawn it.\u201cThe tax of 30 per cent is in addition to the GST rates, theatres are shut due to our inability to pay taxes,\u201d he told news agency PTI.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Actor-filmmaker Kamal Haasan said the industry would speak with \u201cone voice\u201d on the decision.Speaking at the launch of a dubbing studio here on Monday, Haasan told the media, \u201cThe entire industry is gathering together and we shall speak as one voice soon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-96048 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/gst-1.jpg\" alt=\"1100 theaters closed against GST\" width=\"633\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Slowly but steadily voices against the decision are getting louder.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIf there is an attempt to create a uniform tax regime across the country, why is Tamil Nadu government alone imposing this huge tax, which amounts to double taxation?\u201d a cine producers\u2019 association member said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">While a Rs 100 ticket in the neighbouring states (Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Karnataka) costs Rs 118 post-GST, it costs Rs 148 in Tamil Nadu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1,100 cinema halls and multiplexes across Tamil Nadu stopped screening films on Monday with distributors and theatre owners going on an indefinite strike against an additional 30% tax over and above the newly implemented GST. As the goods and services tax (GST), India\u2019s biggest tax reform, was launched on July 1, the state government slipped [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96049,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,2],"tags":[48368,48372,48371,48373,48,48369,26461,2010,633,12129,48374,1524,49,48370,9062],"class_list":["post-96046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cinema","category-top-stories","tag-1100-theaters","tag-30-corporation-tax","tag-30-tax","tag-abhirami-ramanathan","tag-andhra-pradesh","tag-closed-against-gst","tag-distributors","tag-karnataka","tag-kerala","tag-monday","tag-rs-100-ticket","tag-tamil-nadu","tag-telangana","tag-theatre-owners","tag-ticket-sales"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/tt_1498905750.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}