{"id":645108,"date":"2025-09-06T09:28:27","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T03:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=645108"},"modified":"2025-09-06T10:38:40","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T05:08:40","slug":"iata-says-higher-gst-on-non-economy-class-flight-tickets-disappointing-counterproductive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/iata-says-higher-gst-on-non-economy-class-flight-tickets-disappointing-counterproductive\/","title":{"rendered":"IATA says higher GST on non-economy class flight tickets &#8216;disappointing&#8217;, counterproductive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Global airlines&#8217; grouping IATA on Thursday termed as &#8220;disappointing&#8221; the decision to increase the GST on non-economy class flight tickets, &#8220;with no justification&#8221; and said that taxing premium travellers, where they often make a difference to a route&#8217;s viability, is counterproductive. <\/p>\n<p>The Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council, comprising representatives from the Centre and the states, on Wednesday decided on a two-rate structure, 5 per cent and 18 per cent, as part of a major revamp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global airlines&#8217; grouping IATA on Thursday termed as &#8220;disappointing&#8221; the decision to increase the GST on non-economy class flight tickets, &#8220;with no justification&#8221; and said that taxing premium travellers, where they often make a difference to a route&#8217;s viability, is counterproductive. The Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council, comprising representatives from the Centre and the states, on Wednesday decided on a two-rate structure, 5 per cent and 18 per cent, as part of a major revamp.<\/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-645108","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\/645108","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=645108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}