Madhya Pradesh Govt. exempts upcoming Film ‘Thappad’ GST Free

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The Madhya Pradesh State Government has exempted the upcoming Taapsee Pannu starrer film ‘Thappad’ from State Goods and Services Tax ( SGST ) for a period of three months.

Thappad is an upcoming 2020 Indian Hindi-language drama film directed by Anubhav Sinha. The film stars Taapsee Pannu as a woman who files for divorce when her husband slaps her. It will be theatrically released on 28 February 2020.

The Commercial Tax Department has issued a circular, asking single-screen cinemas and multiplexes to refrain from collecting SGST on tickets of the film scheduled to be released on February 28. The tax will be exempted till May 27.

In January, the government had declared ‘Chhapaak’ featuring Deepika Padukone as tax-free.

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