GST On Online Gaming: Supreme Court Transfers Pending Petitions In High Courts To Itself
GST on Online Gaming: Supreme Court Transfers Pending Petitions in High Courts to Itself
The matter was posted for a hearing in the last week of April
The Supreme Court has taken up the pending petitions of the high courts, challenging the imposition of a 28 percent Goods and Services Tax (GST) on online gaming companies.
A bench comprising Chief Justice DY Chandrachud, Justice JB Pardiwala and Justice Manoj Misra ordered the transfer of 27 writ petitions pending in 11 high courts and tagged them with the petition pending in the apex court filed by GamesKraft.
The order allowed a transfer petition filed by the Government of India.
Challenging the GST imposition, several online gaming companies filed writ petitions before the top court.
In the Gameskraft case, the apex court had stayed the judgment of the Karnataka High Court, which had quashed the GST intimation notice of Rs.21,000 crores.
During the brief hearing early this year, appearing for the online gaming companies, Senior Advocate Harish Salve argued there was no supply of 'actionable claim' to impose GST on a 100 percent face value of the bet or the amount paid into the totalizator.
