{"id":78544,"date":"2017-07-05T09:30:55","date_gmt":"2017-07-05T09:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/usmalayali.com\/?p=78544"},"modified":"2023-09-14T15:51:59","modified_gmt":"2023-09-14T15:51:59","slug":"double-taxation-on-tamil-nadu-film-industry-will-affect-many-rajinikanth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usmalayali.com\/?p=78544","title":{"rendered":"Double taxation on Tamil Nadu film industry will affect many: Rajinikanth."},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Johnson Cherian.<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Actor Rajinikanth on Wednesday said the Tamil Nadu government\u2019s decision to levy 30% entertainment tax over and above the GST rate of 28% will affect the livelihood of lakhs of people in the Tamil film industry.<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cKeeping in mind the livelihood of lakhs of people in the Tamil film industry, I sincerely request the Tamil Nadu government to seriously consider our plea,\u201d Rajinikanth tweeted.<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The taxation rate left the Tamil film industry in a disarray, forcing the Tamil Nadu Film Chamber of Commerce to announce shutdown of theatres on Monday and Tuesday.<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Theatres across the State would continue to remain shut on Wednesday for the third consecutive day.<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Keeping in mind the livelihood of Lakhs of people in the tamil film industry, I sincerely request the TN GOVT to seriously consider our plea<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Actor-filmmaker Kamal Haasan on Monday said, \u201cfilm making in the State has been made difficult deliberately.\u201d<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Reacting on the taxation, Kamal Haasan said in a statement, \u201cThere are further tortures and systemic corruption that the film industry has to endure under this regime.\u201d<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Tamil Nadu Film Chamber of Commerce on Friday announced an indefinite shutdown of theatres across Tamil Nadu from July 3 due to lack of clarity on the tax amount that will be levied after GST implementation. A scene at Sathyam Cinemas on Monday.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Doing the maths: how the Tamil film industry\u2019s revenues are set to change after GST<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">He pointed out, apart from Tamil Nadu, other neighbouring southern States have desisted from levying additional tax on cinema over and above the Goods and Services Tax.<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cIn Kerala, the film industry requested CM Pinarayi Vijayan and he, through his Finance Minister, quickly announced that Kerala will not be levying anymore taxes on the already beleaguered film business,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cKarnataka has gone even further to facilitate the well-being of the film industry. Telangana and Andhra are also doing their best for their film industries,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Johnson Cherian. Actor Rajinikanth on Wednesday said the Tamil Nadu government\u2019s decision to levy 30% entertainment tax over and above the GST rate of 28% will affect the livelihood of lakhs of people in the Tamil film industry. \u201cKeeping in mind the livelihood of lakhs of people in the Tamil film industry, I sincerely request [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":78545,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,61,44],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-78544","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cinima","8":"category-english","9":"category-news"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usmalayali.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usmalayali.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usmalayali.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usmalayali.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usmalayali.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78544"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/usmalayali.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":168081,"href":"https:\/\/usmalayali.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78544\/revisions\/168081"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usmalayali.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usmalayali.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usmalayali.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usmalayali.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}