{"id":20586,"date":"2021-07-22T15:36:42","date_gmt":"2021-07-22T15:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=20586"},"modified":"2026-04-23T17:21:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T20:21:40","slug":"india-analyses-gambling-taxation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/india-analyses-gambling-taxation","title":{"rendered":"India analyses gambling taxation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>India\u2019s Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council is seeking to change the valuation and taxes for gambling, including casinos, online gambling and racecourses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>India.-\u00a0<strong>A panel of state ministers<\/strong>\u00a0has been formed by India\u2019s Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council to examine the valuation and taxability of services provided by casinos, gambling websites and racecourses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to The Shillong Time, the panel, which is\u00a0<strong>formed by seven members<\/strong>, will report its findings to the GST Council within six months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The group of ministers is led by<strong> Nitin Patel<\/strong>, deputy chief minister of Gujarat. The other members are: Tamil Nadu and West Bengal&#8217;s ministers of finance Palanivel Thiagarajan and Amit Mitra; Maharashtra and Arunachal&#8217;s deputy chief ministers Ajit Pawar and Chowna Mein; the Transport Minister of Goa, Mauvin Godinho, and the Karnataka home minister Basavaraj Bommai.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The GST was introduced in July 2017. It placed gambling and betting were placed under the highest tax category, along with luxury items and services, charging 28 per cent on the total value of bets and on all transactions at casinos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In January, a think-tank proposed the creation of an\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/india-considers-standardising-gaming-regulations\">independent regulatory body for fantasy sports<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council is seeking to change the valuation and taxes for gambling, including casinos, online gambling and racecourses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":20588,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"India's Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council has established a panel of state ministers to review the valuation and taxability of services provided by casinos, online gambling platforms, and racecourses. This panel, led by Gujarat's Deputy Chief Minister Nitin Patel, is tasked with reporting its findings within six months, potentially altering the current 28% GST levied on the total value of bets and transactions.","focusai_entities":"Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council, Nitin Patel, Palanivel Thiagarajan, Amit Mitra, Ajit Pawar, Chowna Mein, Mauvin Godinho, Basavaraj Bommai","focusai_location":"India, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Maharashtra, Arunachal, Goa, Karnataka","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.9), compliance_legal (0.85), operator_casino (0.95), affiliate_publisher (0.7), marketing_crm (0.7), investor_analyst (0.95), supplier_vendor (0.75)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Valuation Impact?","query":"What specific methodologies for 'valuation' are under review by the GST Council, and how might alternative approaches impact the effective tax rate on GGR versus total stakes for iGaming and land-based casino operators?"},{"label":"Regulatory Outlook?","query":"Beyond the GST review, what is the broader regulatory outlook for online gambling in India, particularly concerning the potential for a unified federal licensing framework or the proposed independent regulatory body for fantasy sports?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[163,158,16334],"tags":[23911],"class_list":["post-20586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-finance-news","category-slider-home","category-south-asia-news","tag-gambling-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20586"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20609,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20586\/revisions\/20609"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}