{"id":1918,"date":"2023-02-04T06:21:38","date_gmt":"2023-02-04T06:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dehadrai.in\/?page_id=1918"},"modified":"2023-02-06T05:38:40","modified_gmt":"2023-02-06T05:38:40","slug":"constitutional-challenge-to-the-imposition-of-goods-services-tax-gst-on-disability-aids-supreme-court-of-india-constitutional-disability-law","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dehadrai.in\/index.php\/constitutional-challenge-to-the-imposition-of-goods-services-tax-gst-on-disability-aids-supreme-court-of-india-constitutional-disability-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Constitutional Challenge to the imposition of Goods &#038; Services Tax (GST) on disability aids (Supreme Court of India \u2013 Constitutional &#038; Disability Law)"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"1918\" class=\"elementor elementor-1918\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"has_eae_slider elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-e671f84 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"e671f84\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"has_eae_slider elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-930a90f\" data-id=\"930a90f\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"has_eae_slider elementor-section elementor-inner-section elementor-element elementor-element-0bbc6e7 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"0bbc6e7\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"has_eae_slider elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-9831cde\" data-id=\"9831cde\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6cd82bb elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"6cd82bb\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.10.2 - 29-01-2023 *\/\n.elementor-heading-title{padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title[class*=elementor-size-]>a{color:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-small{font-size:15px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-medium{font-size:19px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-large{font-size:29px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xl{font-size:39px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xxl{font-size:59px}<\/style><h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Constitutional Challenge to the imposition of Goods & Services Tax (GST) on disability aids (Supreme Court of India \u2013 Constitutional & Disability Law)<\/h3>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-bd1ed82 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"bd1ed82\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.10.2 - 29-01-2023 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#818a91;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#818a91;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<p>Perhaps one of our most important on-going pro bono constitutional cases.<\/p><p>We represent\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/india\/manasi-joshis-demand-for-gst-waiver-reopens-debate-on-tax-on-disability-aids-5993272\/\">Paralympic Gold-medallist Manasi Joshi<\/a>\u00a0(she was on the cover of Time Magazine) pro bono in the Supreme Court, challenging the constitutionality of a taxing provision which imposes 5% tax levy on disability aids \u2013 such as prosthetic limbs, wheelchairs, braille paper etc.<\/p><p>This tax impacts millions of disabled individuals in India, who are effectively being penalized for their disability. We explained to the Court that taxing a person who walks with the aid of a prosthetic limb or a wheelchair, was akin to taxing an able bodied person for walking. We\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/main.sci.gov.in\/supremecourt\/2017\/21094\/21094_2017_36_19_24413_Order_26-Oct-2020.pdf\">succeeded<\/a>\u00a0in getting Court Notices issued to the Union of India and the Ministry of Finance, and the case is now awaiting final arguments.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Constitutional Challenge to the imposition of Goods &#038; Services Tax (GST) on disability aids (Supreme Court of India \u2013 Constitutional &#038; Disability Law) Perhaps one of our most important on-going pro bono constitutional cases. We represent\u00a0Paralympic Gold-medallist Manasi Joshi\u00a0(she was on the cover of Time Magazine) pro bono in the Supreme Court, challenging the constitutionality &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/dehadrai.in\/index.php\/constitutional-challenge-to-the-imposition-of-goods-services-tax-gst-on-disability-aids-supreme-court-of-india-constitutional-disability-law\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Constitutional Challenge to the imposition of Goods &#038; Services Tax (GST) on disability aids (Supreme Court of India \u2013 Constitutional &#038; Disability Law)<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"no-sidebar","site-content-layout":"page-builder","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"disabled","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"disabled","ast-featured-img":"disabled","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1918","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dehadrai.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dehadrai.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dehadrai.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dehadrai.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dehadrai.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1918"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"https:\/\/dehadrai.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2216,"href":"https:\/\/dehadrai.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1918\/revisions\/2216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dehadrai.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}