scholarly journals Impact and Challenges of GST in India with Reference to Media & Entertainment Sector – An Insight

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (08) ◽  
pp. 366-382
Author(s):  
Sudipta Chakraborty ◽  

The biggest tax reform since independence i.e., Goods and Services Tax (GST) has now become a part of Indian economy from 1st July, 2017. It is a comprehensive indirect tax on manufactures, sales and consumption of goods and services; thereby subsuming almost all other indirect taxes that were in existence throughout India before its implementation and also eliminating the cascading effects thereby. GST was introduced just after demonetisation in November, 2016 and has changed the whole scenario of indirect tax system in India. It aims at boosting overall growth of Indian economy by integrating all indirect taxes into one. The media and entertainment (M&E) industry in India is one of the fastest growing sectors and has outperformed expectations in recent years. With the expansion of the economy, the sector has accelerated its growth. The sector spreads into big and small screens, media, events, exhibitions, amusement facilities and gaming zones, with various combinations of offline and online delivery systems. With the advent of GST, things have become relatively simpler for the entertainment industry as it is subjected to only one tax and permissible local body taxes. One of the major changes has been the subsuming of Entertainment Tax under GST. Earlier, prior to implementation of GST, the rate of Entertainment Tax for the film industry varied from state to state, ranging from 15% to 110%. Introduction of GST has stabilised the rate variance and provided a uniform market across the nation. In this study, we have also made an attempt to study the pre and post GST effects on different activities of the media and entertainment industry like exhibition of movies, food and beverages sold at movie halls, services rendered by artists and other technician, sponsorship and brand promotion and advertisement. Thus, this paper is an endeavour to understand the impact of GST on media and entertainment sector and aims at pointing out the challenges of the same under the present structure and provide some way outs to it.

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 297-300
Author(s):  
NAMASIVAYAM ◽  
SRI PADMA ABIRAMI P ◽  
RAMPRAKASH S

Goods and Service Tax or GST as it is known is all set to be a game changerfor the Indian economy. The Finance Minister in his budget speech of Budget 2015 hasannounced time and again that the tax will be introduced on 1 April, 2016. In India, there aredifferent indirect taxes applied on goods and services by central and state government. GSTis intended to include all these taxes into one tax with seamless ITC and charged on bothgoods and services. Thus excise duty, special additional duty, service tax, VAT to name afew will get repealed and will be added into GST. For this, GST will have 3 parts – CGST,SGST and IGST. The central taxes like excise duty will be subsumed into CGST and statetaxes like VAT into SGST .This paper deals with the impact of GST in India


Author(s):  
Attila GYÖRGY ◽  
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Liliana SIMIONESCU ◽  

The Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) affect­ed almost all activities worldwide. The medical sec­tor was one of those which were most significantly impacted because the medical infrastructure was not sized for such a high scale shock, specialized human resources and medical infrastructure prov­ing to be much undersized and with slow growth potential. Many changes were required, important financial resources being mobilized in order to mo­tivate medical staff, offer treatments for the most severely affected patients, but also to create new fa­cilities where the increasing number of sick persons could be cured. In our research we want to offer a hospital cost perspective based on empirical analysis of the COVID-19 impact on different categories of expens­es made by Romanian hospitals that treated patients with COVID-19 in different stages of their disease. The period analyzed was January 2019 to December 2020 on a monthly basis. Our results showed that expenses with goods and services, drugs, reagents and human resources are influenced by COVID-19 in a significant manner.


2021 ◽  
Vol 107 ◽  
pp. 01003
Author(s):  
Nataliia Maksyshko ◽  
Oksana Vasylieva

The article is devoted to the study and comparative analysis of the stock quotes dynamics for the world’s leading companies in the IT sector and the entertainment industry. Today, these areas are developing the fastest and most powerful, which attracts the attention of investors around the world. This is due to the rapid development of digital communication technologies, the growth of intellectualization and individualization of goods and services, and so on. These spheres have strong development potential, but the question to how their companies’ stock quotes respond to the impact of such a natural but crisis phenomenon as the COVID-19 pandemic remains open. Based on the nonlinear paradigm of the financial markets dynamics, the paper considers and conducts a comprehensive fractal analysis of the quotations dynamics for six leading companies (Apple Inc., Tesla Inc., Alphabet Inc., The Walt Disney Company, Sony Corporation, Netflix) in this area before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. As a result of the application of the rescaled range analysis (R/S analysis), the presence of the persistence property and long-term memory in the stock quotes dynamics for all companies and its absence in their time series of profitability was confirmed. The application of the method of sequential R/S analysis made it possible to construct fuzzy sets of memory depths for the considered time series and to deepen the analysis of the dynamics due to the quantitative characteristics calculated on their basis. Taking into account the characteristics of memory depth in the dynamics of quotations made it possible to conduct a comparative analysis of the dynamics, both under the influence of the natural crisis situation and in terms of investing in different terms. The peculiarities of the delayed profitability dynamics of quotations for each of the companies are also taken into consideration and compared. The developed recommendations can be used in investment activities in the stock market.


2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Inayatu Solikhah

In this day and age many people use Indonesian language which is not in accordance with the rules of language and with the advancement of information technology which rapidly raises many social media, one of which is Instagram which is loved by almost all Indonesian people. The purpose of this study is to find out and explain how much influence instagram has in fostering the development of Indonesian. The method used is descriptive qualitative method with data collection techniques. The results of the study explained that Instagram social media was also used by the Ministry of Education and Culture to develop Indonesian language through accounts @badanbahasakemndikbud which upload many Indonesian rules and grammar, including spelling of words, equivalent words, raw words, punctuation, word terms, proverbs, and so on. Not only official accounts from the government, some communities also contribute to developing the Indonesian language through Instagram, one of which is @sastraindonesia with upload contents that together discuss Indonesian rules and grammar. The impact of the instagram as one of the media used in the development of Indonesian language is that more and more people know about Indonesian rules and grammar because of the ease of access by Instagram communities.


In today's world, people go online not only for entertainment, but also to study, shop, search for the necessary information and more. And social networks are approaching a giant like Google every year in terms of number of users and frequency of using.Therefore, almost all entrepreneurs have their own page on social networks, which are an ideal platform for promoting their products and services. Over the past 10 years, a new Internet marketing tool has appeared that specializes in promoting and doing business on social networks – SMM (Social Media Marketing). And here it is especially important to build a quality and effective strategy that will make social networks a quality image and sales channel of any goods and services. The subject of the article is a marketing strategy for development and promotion in social networks.The purpose of the article is to develop the applied principlesof an innovative strategy for narrowing the niche for promotion in social networks according to the features and means of its implementation for various business projects, brands and blogs. General scientific methods are used, such as systems analysis, synthesis and abstract-logical – to clarify the features of the blogs in each niche, which work on the strategy of narrowing the niche; analysis of Facebook for Business algorithms – to determine the impact of such a strategy on the further effectiveness of targeted advertising and the allocation of a unique trade offer due to the strategy of narrowing the niche.The following results were obtained: ways of implementing a niche narrowing strategy for various blogs, brands and business projects were developed and demonstrated, their effectiveness was proved. Conclusions: the practical principles of implementing an innovative strategy for narrowing the niche for social networks, which can be used for various business projects, brands and blogs, described the possibilities of implementing this strategy according to their features and tools, highlighted the main advantages of this strategy for rapid development of social networks.


Author(s):  
Vimal Kishor Shukla

India is going through a lot of change right now, first demonetization attempt to curb the black money and eradicate corruption and now a few months later GST bill to make sure there should be no space for the reasons of corruption which will directly boost our Indian economy. We have written this article to make you aware of the effects and impacts of GST on various aspects of our lives. The best part about this article is that with this core information you can prepare a decent essay or speech for your speech and essay competition. Because I am pretty sure the GST is going to be the topic of discussion in every school and college too. The death of all taxes: With the unified tax regime common people said goodbye to a plethora of indirect taxes making India One Nation One Market One Tax country. Now, businesses don’t need to worry about the plethora of taxes


Author(s):  
Sarbjit Singh

This paper explores the impact of GST on the country’s GDP. Also, the impact on various segments of the population. It also explores the journey of this reform and comparison with the countries which have done this reform earlier. The identification strategy makes use of various reports published by the media and government agencies. The paper also discusses the impact of GST on the logistics industry of India. The paper also looks into the proposed slabs of GST and also its effect on tax revenue for various States of India. The study also considered the items which have considered out of GST net and also how it might impact the Foreign Direct Investments (FDI).


Author(s):  
Rohan Navandhar

Abstract: In India, the idea of GST was contemplated in 2004 by the Task Force on implementation of the Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Act, 2003, named Kelkar Committee. The Kelkar Committee was convinced that a dual GST system shall be able to tax almost all the goods and services and the Indian economy shall be able to have wider market of tax base, improve revenue collection through levying and collection of indirect tax and more pragmatic approach of efficient resource allocation. Under the Goods and Service Tax , every person is be liable to pay tax on output and shall be entitled to enjoy credit on input tax paid and tax shall be only on the amount of value added. GST is a single national uniform tax levied across India on all goods and services. In GST, all Indirect taxes such as excise duty, central sales tax (CST)and value- added tax (VAT) etc. will be subsumed under a single regime. Introduction of The Goods and Services Tax (GST) expected as a significant step towards a comprehensive indirect tax reform in the country, which would lead India for its economic growth. The Proposed study is designed to know the impact on GST on Indian Economy with the Help of Its individual effect on different sectors. Under GST, goods and services fall under five tax categories: 0 per cent, 5 per cent, 12 per cent, 18 per cent and 28 per cent. For corporates, the elimination of multiple taxes will improve the ease of doing business. And for consumers, the biggest advantage would be in terms of a reduction in the overall tax burden on goods. "Inflation will come down, tax avoidance will be difficult, India's GDP will be benefitted and extra resources will be used for welfare of poor and weaker section. The Lok Sabha has finally Passed the Goods and Services Tax Bill and it is expected to have a significant impact on every industry and every consumer. Apart from filling the loopholes of the current system, it is also aimed at boosting the Indian economy. Keywords: GST, Indian Economy, Positive Impact , Negative Impact, Central Government, State Government


Author(s):  
Tatyana Parsadanova

It is no secret that COVID 19 and its consequences have affected almost all aspects of our life. We have become focused on life at home, the approach to work has changed, and the definition of remote work has taken root in our vocabulary. Despite all the negative aspects, the pandemic has accelerated the development of key technological trends, such as distance learning, telemedicine, remote work, online shopping, contactless payments, 3D printing, which leveled out supply disruptions, robotics, a new generation of 5G mobile communications with its capabilities, and of course, the online entertainment industry. Our consumer preferences have changed during this year; however, the need for entertainment has only increased. Many believe that nowadays, the Internet and television era is a thing of the past; nevertheless, statistics do not confirm this. In the third quarter of this year alone, global TV sales have increased by 12.9% over the same period in 2019, which is 38% more than in the previous quarter. Television viewing has increased, and television program views have skyrocketed. Streaming content has become even more popular; streaming services allow one to watch absolutely everything - movies, TV series, news at any time and from any device. All these processes are connected with the fact that, during the quarantine, cinemas were closed, the attendance of which has already decreased in recent years. They opened with restrictions on viewers’ seating; the premieres were postponed for a year, even two - until the spring of 2021 and 2022. This year, the world of the media and entertainment industry has become: remote, virtual, streaming and personalized. The driver is the consumer, so market players pay great attention to innovation, focusing on personalization. At the forefront of new technologies is the Disney company, which presents its films both in theatrical screenings and on its online platform. Television is also not left behind; on November 3, VGTRK launched its "Smotrim" media platform. The audience’s consumption habits have already changed, interest in media is increasing and moving towards digitalization. The pandemic has accelerated the process. How this is happening and what awaits the industry is covered in this article.


Author(s):  
Dr. Baneswar Kapasi ◽  
Dr. Mahesh Kumar Kurmi

COVID -19 has wedged all the major economies across the globe significantly. The World Health Organisation (WHO) first declared COVID-19 as a world health emergency in January 2020. The virus originated in Wuhan, China, but has been detected in over 200 countries. Amid the Coronavirus Pandemic, several countries worldwide resorted to lockdown to control infection. Due to lockdown, the production and distribution chains have been disrupted across the lands. All the segments of the economy have been impacted in different magnitude, and this has a direct impact on GDP, unemployment ratio, and tax collection. Goods and Services Tax (GST) is a harmonized tax of different indirect taxes in India. The GST collection reflects the volume of economic activities in India. Thus, in this paper, an attempt has been made to assess the impact of Covid-19 on the Indian economy concerning the quantum of Goods and Service collection in Indian during the lockdown period. For this study, secondary data relating to GST collection have been pooled from the official websites of the GST Council of India for the last three years, i.e., 2018 to 2020, and pair t-test have been run for testing statistical significance of the impact of COVID-19 on the quantum of the collection of Goods and Service Tax in India before and after lockdown announcement after adjusting the inflation factor. The results indicate no significant difference in the quantum of Goods and Services Tax Collection in India before and after the lockdown announcement due to the COVID-19 outbreak but a loss of Rs. 1,41,837 crore owing to the low collection of GST from March 2020 to August 2020 gives us a clear message that we should undoubtedly rethink the plans in more structural and more viable ways to reach a position to absorb any kinds of uncertain threats from the external environment. KEYWORDS: Covid-19, GST, Indian Economy, Pandemic, Lockdown


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