{"id":435995,"date":"2021-09-15T11:01:31","date_gmt":"2021-09-15T05:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=435995"},"modified":"2021-09-15T11:01:31","modified_gmt":"2021-09-15T05:31:31","slug":"gst-hike-from-5-per-12-to-make-solar-projects-unviable-say-industry-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/gst-hike-from-5-per-12-to-make-solar-projects-unviable-say-industry-players\/","title":{"rendered":"GST hike from 5% per 12% to make solar projects unviable, say industry players"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The GST fitment committee&#8217;s recommendation to raise the tax on solar modules from 5% to 12% has sent shockwaves across the renewable energy industry, as companies are worried that it would make a lot of projects unviable.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, the GST rate on all solar panels is 5%. This was decided when the indirect tax system was overhauled in 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The GST fitment committee&#8217;s recommendation to raise the tax on solar modules from 5% to 12% has sent shockwaves across the renewable energy industry, as companies are worried that it would make a lot of projects unviable. Currently, the GST rate on all solar panels is 5%. This was decided when the indirect tax system was overhauled in 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,239,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-435995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}