Budget 2012: Reduce tax burden on DTH industry , says Dish TV

NEW DELHI: Dish TV said it is looking for positive steps from the government to reduce the heavy taxation on Direct to Home industry as the service providers are paying multiple taxes such as service tax , entertainment tax , license fee and value added tax.

The company has urged the government to provide some relief in license fee by reducing it from the current 10% to 6% as earlier recommended by Trai. Salil Kapoor COO Dish TV said, "The double charge of service tax and entertainment tax should be subsumed in Good and Service Tax."

The company also said that the government should reduce the basic customs duty on digital head ends and set top boxes to zero for three years to give a boost to digitalisation.

Dish TV has 12.5 million subscribers and has a 29% market share among six players in the DTH market in the county.