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  • Maharashtra government reduces entertainment tax on DTH service

    MUMBAI: Maharashtra Government has brought in a reduction in the entertainment tax on Direct to Home (DTH) service. The ‘A’ class municipal corporation areas, the entertainment tax of Rs 30 per television set would be levied while the ‘B’ class municipal council areas will be charged Rs 20 and rest of the areas will be charged Rs 10 per set.
     

    The existing rates are Rs 90, Rs 60 and Rs 30, respectively. The decision comes at a time when the DTH scenario in the country is heating up. The government, this year, cleared the entry of the Star Group of India – Tata joint venture T-Sky and Sun’s Sun Direct. Anil Ambani’s Reliance Sky is also gearing up for a DTH venture.

    The Maharashtra government is also in the process of conducting a survey to ascertain the exact number of cable connections in the state.

    The government has also announced that subscription charges for direct to home (DTH) channels will be on par with that of regular cable networks. According to state Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh, the change was being implemented with the view to break the monopoly of cable operators, who often evade taxes by misquoting the actual subscription numbers. With the policy change, the government hopes to keep a tab on the number of subscribers.

  • Hathway reduces broadband entry price

    MUMBAI: Hathway Cable & Datacom has lowered down the entry price of its broadband services and waived off rental cost on cable modems as part of its move to draw in new subscribers.
     

    Subscribers under the “Liteway” tariff plan will have to pay Rs. 275 per month with a download limit of 125 mbps. Hathway’s lowest tariff was Rs. 500 a month. “It is one of the most competitive products in the market today. This will help us expand our market base,” says Hathway Cable & Datacom CEO K Jayaraman.
     
     

    Hathway has also launched an unlimited usage plan known as “Thruway” at Rs. 500 a month. The service will be available at 64 kbps. Under an earlier plan, Hathway offers a download limit of 1 gbps at 256 kbps. While the speed has been reduced, the cap on the download limit has been removed. “It has always been our endeavour to make Internet affordable for the masses and encourage usage of Internet services,” says Jayaraman.

    Subscribers will now not have to pay monthly rentals on cable modems. Earlier, they had a monthly rental option of Rs. 100. The cable modems, though, will continue to be provided on a returnable deposit of Rs. 1000.

    Hathway has also slashed by half its registration fee to Rs. 500 across all schemes. The additional downloads will cost less at 90 paise per mb, in contrast to Rs. 2 or Rs. 1.50 depending on the plan the subscriber had opted for.

  • Karnataka budget reduces theatre show tax, composition tax

    BANGALORE: Karnataka Dy. CM and State finance minister Siddharamaiah has brought down the rates of Show Tax and composition tax paid by theaters, besides announcing sops for children films while announcing the state finance budget.
     

    Show tax and Composite or Composition tax has been cut by around 50 per cent across various thicket price slabs and population size of the place where the Cinema theater is located. The benefit if passed onto the viewer would be just 10 or 20 paise, but distributors, exhibitors and producers would definitely have a reason to smile about.

     
     

    The industry main demand of a subsidy of Rs 7,50,000/- for every Kannada film has not been met with. Minister Siddharamaiah has announced Rs 2.5 million subsidy for 2 of the best children films while maintaining a subsidy or Rs 1 million for 20 of the best Kannada films. He has also included all award winning Kannada films in the subsidy ambit.