Publishers versus authors: Who will pay GST on royalty?

Indian authors— both of fiction and subjects more prosaic —are closely monitoring a court case filed in the Delhi High Court. The Meerut Publishers’ Association filed the writ petition on September 11 against the Centre, and the subject matter is the biggest indirect tax reform since Independence. And GST has become the hot topic of discussion for top fiction writers, such as Ravi Subramanian and…