Bharti Airtel on Thursday said the National Anti-profiteering Authority has dismissed a complaint against its subsidiary Bharti Telemedia for not passing on GST rate cut benefits to its consumers. The investigation against the DTH service provider Bharti Telemedia started following a customer complaint that alleged that the firm did not reduce the prices of its services after implementation of the GST, denying consumers the benefit of the reduced tax rate. While the overall tax burden came down in the new tax regime, consumers continued to pay the same tax rate on the DTH services, as per the complaint. However, the benefit of the reduction in the tax rate was not passed on to consumers, according to the complainant. “There was no merit found in the application...and the same is being dismissed as being not maintainable, the authority added.

Source: dna June 14, 2019 00:00 UTC