Indian Premier League teams are asking the government to reclassify match tickets. They want IPL games treated as sports, not entertainment...

The GST Council has raised tax on sporting events like IPL to 40% while easing levies on cinema tickets under ₹100, now taxed at 5%. Higher...

Multiplex players had been seeking a reduction in the rate since July last year, when the Narendra Modi led govt first kept cinema tickets ...

Industry body Assocham has sought industry status to the film sector and has asked the government to do away with imposition of any other l...

If you are from a high entertainment tax state like Jharkhand (110%) or Uttar Pradesh (60%), you will only pay 28% tax now.

CBEC has everything in place for the upcoming GST rollout says Vanaja N Sarna, Chairman, CBEC

"After considering the recommendations, GST Council has reduced tax rates on 66 out of 133 items on which representations were made by the ...

Except, there is no one GST. It should perhaps be called GST5. For, at its introduction, the GST has five different rates: 0%, 5%, 12%, 18%...

The Finance Ministry in a statement said services by way of admission to entertainment events or cinematography films in cinema theatres wi...

The association said cinema is a primary form of entertainment for the masses and needs to be supported in the form of a lower rate of tax ...

GST Council has fixed rate on movie tickets at 28 per cent , the highest rate slab which is also applicable for casinos and five-star hotel...

India is globally the fifth largest media and entertainment market, said a Deloitte report titled 'Media and entertainment industry - India...

The Indian consumer on one hand is more empowered with information, is better aware, and on the other hand wants full value for their money.

With the government slated to announce the implementation of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) in the Union Budget 2012, the entertainment i...

Indian movie industry demands removal of double taxation system in the sector to sustain, said movie biggies here on Wednesday.

If levies such as entertainment tax continue, the basic objective of GST, viz, replacing diverse, complex and ad-hoc taxes by a single comp...

The proposed Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime may not include entertainment tax, as states are unwilling to forgo the levy, a government...