Cinema Chain Guilty of Profiteering: Failed to Lower Ticket Prices After GST Cut from 18% to 12% in 2019.

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....Profiteering - supply of Services by way of admission to exhibition of cinematography films - It has been established that the Respondent has profiteered by way of increasing the base prices of his supplies of the three categories of movie tickets by maintaining the same selling prices of the movie admission tickets despite the reduction in GST rate on “Services by way of admission to exhibition of cinematograph films where price of admission ticket is one hundred rupees or less” from 18% to 12% w.e.f. 01.01.2019 to 30.06.2019. It is also clear that the Respondent has not passed on the benefit to his customers/recipients. - NAPA....