{"id":777004996,"date":"2023-05-08T10:12:48","date_gmt":"2023-05-08T13:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777004996"},"modified":"2026-04-22T22:14:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T01:14:10","slug":"india-online-gaming-tax-on-gst-councils-june-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/india-online-gaming-tax-on-gst-councils-june-agenda","title":{"rendered":"India: online gaming tax on GST Council&#8217;s June agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The GST Council may discuss online gaming tax rates at its next meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>India.- The&nbsp;<strong>Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council<\/strong>&nbsp;is expected to provide clarity on tax rates for online gaming during its upcoming meeting, which is likely to be held next month. A finance ministry official said a council meeting will probably be held in June as state elections will be over by then.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The council will take up&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/india-gom-to-propose-28-gst-for-online-gaming\" target=\"_blank\">the report of the Group of Ministers (GoM)<\/a>&nbsp;on online gaming, horse racing, and casinos. The report was not addressed at the 49th meeting of the council in February as chairman Conrad Sangma could not attend due to the elections in Meghalaya.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is currently no consensus on how to tax online games and whether they should be considered games of skill or games of chance. At present, online skill gaming is taxed at 18 per cent of the gross gaming revenue (GGR), while betting and gambling are taxed at 28 per cent on full amounts.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reports suggested the GoM was in favour of applying 28 per cent GST but could not reach a consensus. Some fear an increase in taxes could encourage players to choose illegal gambling websites that do not deduct taxes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stakeholders were also concerned that applying 28 per cent GST on GGR would lead to a significant increase in tax, with a potential impact as high as 1,100 per cent on the business and 300 per cent on gamers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The GST Council may discuss online gaming tax rates at its next meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":34643,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"The GST Council in India is set to discuss online gaming tax rates at its next meeting, likely in June, following a report from the Group of Ministers (GoM). The debate centers on whether online games are skill or chance, with a potential increase from 18% on GGR to 28% on full amounts, raising concerns about business viability and a shift to illegal platforms.","focusai_entities":"GST Council, Group of Ministers, GoM, Conrad Sangma, Finance Ministry","focusai_location":"India, Meghalaya","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.95), regulator (0.98), compliance_legal (0.95), operator_casino (1.0), affiliate_publisher (0.85), product_ux (0.75), tech_data (0.7), marketing_crm (0.8), payments_fraud_aml (0.8), investor_analyst (0.98), supplier_vendor (0.9), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Taxation Methodology Impact?","query":"What specific methodology will the GST Council adopt to differentiate between games of skill and chance for taxation purposes, and what are the projected GGR and NGR impacts for major operators under a 28% GST on full stakes versus the current 18% on GGR?"},{"label":"Mitigating Illegal Gambling?","query":"Beyond taxation, what additional regulatory and enforcement measures are being considered by the Indian government to mitigate the anticipated migration of players to unregulated, illegal gambling platforms if the 28% GST on full amounts is implemented?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[154,16334],"tags":[23911],"class_list":["post-777004996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legislation-news","category-south-asia-news","tag-gambling-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777004996","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=777004996"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777004996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777005017,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777004996\/revisions\/777005017"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777004996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777004996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777004996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}