Telecom companies want GST on spectrum, licence fees scrapped or refund of input credits

Telecom companies , burdened with debt and engaged in a battle for customers, are set to ask the government to exempt them from goods and services tax on payments made towards spectrum and  licence fees . The Cellular Operators Association of India plans to write to the Department of Telecommunications to explain how their burden will ease if payment of regulatory levies by telcos is exempted…