Union government<\/strong> petitioned to have these consolidated at the Supreme Court so it could address the fundamental issues on the classification of gaming activities and the implications for GST.<\/p>\n\n\n\nAfter a previous hearing, the court sent notifications to the union government and GST authorities, instructing them to address the companies’ claims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Senior advocate Harish Salve<\/strong> is representing the gaming firms, while additional solicitor general Venkatraman<\/strong> is representing the GST department and the Union of India. Online gaming companies, including Head Digital Works, Games24x7, and Dream11,\u00a0argue that the tax could impact the viability of their businesses and have opposed its retrospective application.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Several cases have been consolidated at the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":30284,"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 Supreme Court is set to consolidate and hear 27 pending Goods and Services Tax (GST) cases from online gaming companies and casinos on May 5. These challenges contest the government's amendment imposing a 28% GST on wagers, replacing the previous 18% on revenue, with companies arguing it impacts business viability and opposing retrospective application. The court will address fundamental issues regarding the classification of gaming activities and GST implications.","focusai_entities":"Supreme Court, Union government, GST authorities, Harish Salve, Venkatraman, GST department, Union of India, Head Digital Works, Games24x7, Dream11","focusai_location":"India","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.9), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (0.9), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.8)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Tax Classification Impact","query":"What precedent could the Supreme Court's ruling on the classification of online gaming activities set for future regulatory frameworks and taxation models in emerging iGaming markets?"},{"label":"Operator Viability Analysis","query":"How might a sustained 28% GST on wagers fundamentally alter the unit economics and long-term investment attractiveness for iGaming operators within the Indian market, particularly concerning NGR and player acquisition strategies?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[439,16334],"tags":[29],"class_list":["post-777025126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legal-news","category-south-asia-news","tag-casino"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777025126","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=777025126"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777025126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777025153,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777025126\/revisions\/777025153"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777025126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777025126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777025126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}