The government is likely to request the Supreme Court to club together all the Goods and Services Tax (GST) online gaming cases that are currently under litigation on the grounds of a single principle, a senior Finance Ministry official said.
“The online gaming cases are pending in the Supreme Court on the taxability issue. The final decision on it will be taken by the Supreme Court and one cannot have multiple interpretations of the same law. So the request is to tag all the cases together,” the official told Moneycontrol.
If the Supreme Court agrees, it will pass an order saying that since the cases are pending before it, all the matters can be tagged instead of multiple orders being passed. “The request is to club these into a single litigation on the principle of it. Some of the earlier major decisions of the Supreme Court are in the name of a company but the list of tagged cases go up to 40-100,” he said. The transfer can only be initiated at the discretion of the Supreme Court.
Clubbing of all the GST online gaming company cases will save the Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) resources and time.
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