Sahitya Parishat seeks GST exemption for royalties

Pointing out that the Kannada publishing industry is in doldrums with not more than 1000 copies being printed of even the most popular books, Kannada Sahitya Parishat has written to Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, seeking exemption on GST levied on royalties given to authors. In a letter to the finance minister, Sahitya Parishat president Manu Baligar said the advent of digitisation has…