{"id":85132,"date":"2011-03-25T23:47:58","date_gmt":"2011-03-25T15:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/indian-satellite-executives-blast-dth-tax-policies-at-casbaa-forum\/"},"modified":"2011-03-25T23:47:58","modified_gmt":"2011-03-25T15:47:58","slug":"indian-satellite-executives-blast-dth-tax-policies-at-casbaa-forum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/indian-satellite-executives-blast-dth-tax-policies-at-casbaa-forum\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Satellite Executives Blast DTH Tax Policies at CASBAA Forum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[03-25-11] Indian satellite operators criticized India\u2019s government for instituting taxation policies that show \u201cpreferential tax treatment of cable operators over satellite,\u201d according to a <strong>CASBAA<\/strong> statement issued March 24 from the organization\u2019s forum in New Delhi.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp; The complaints focused on India\u2019s 35 percent DTH tax, which were characterized as an \u201cunheard-of burden for an entertainment product that is an everyday experience for hundreds of millions of Indians,\u201d CASBAA said. <br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp; The satellite operators also voiced dismay regarding restrictions for retail prices that do not apply to cable operators. \u201cTime and again we heard that companies are hard pressed to make money in the content industry thanks to regulatory constraints, under-declaration, high carriage fees and rising costs. India\u2019s backward-looking government approach is one of the biggest problems facing the regional industry,\u201d CASBAA CEO Simon Twiston Davies said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[03-25-11] Indian satellite operators criticized India\u2019s government for instituting taxation policies that show \u201cpreferential tax treatment of cable operators over satellite,\u201d according to a CASBAA statement issued March 24 from the organization\u2019s forum in New Delhi. &nbsp;&nbsp; The complaints focused on India\u2019s 35 percent DTH tax, which were characterized as an \u201cunheard-of burden for an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85132"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}