{"id":644942,"date":"2025-09-04T09:51:32","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T04:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=644942"},"modified":"2025-09-04T12:00:02","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T06:30:02","slug":"gst-2-0-tax-on-drones-cut-premium-airfares-will-gain-altitude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/gst-2-0-tax-on-drones-cut-premium-airfares-will-gain-altitude\/","title":{"rendered":"GST 2.0: Tax on drones cut; premium airfares will gain altitude"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The GST Council&#8217;s latest rate decisions announced late Wednesday have reduced the producer tax incidence on the makers of drones and flight simulators.<\/p>\n<p>GST on unmanned aircraft has been cut to 5% from 28%\/18%, a sharp reduction that lowers entry costs for operators deploying drones in logistics, agriculture and mapping.<\/p>\n<p>Flight and target motion simulators &#8211; critical for pilot training &#8211; have been exempted from IGST, slashing the outgo on new training equipment for airlines and academies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The GST Council&#8217;s latest rate decisions announced late Wednesday have reduced the producer tax incidence on the makers of drones and flight simulators. GST on unmanned aircraft has been cut to 5% from 28%\/18%, a sharp reduction that lowers entry costs for operators deploying drones in logistics, agriculture and mapping. Flight and target motion simulators &#8211; critical for pilot training &#8211; have been exempted from IGST, slashing the outgo on new training equipment for airlines and academies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,130,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-644942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644942","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=644942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}