It's an annual pre-budget ritual. And one of India’s leading DTH companies has made a fresh request to the finance ministry, one that it has been making for several years now. Dish TV has requested the ministry to exempt it from the 12.36 per cent service tax that it pays per subscriber till the time the Goods and Services Tax (GST) is implemented.
“Every year before the budget, the ministry asks all industries to send in their suggestions. We wrote to them about a month ago and this was one of our suggestions that we have been putting forth since nearly six or seven years,” says Dish TV CEO R C Venkateish.
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