{"id":79446,"date":"2021-05-18T20:00:25","date_gmt":"2021-05-18T14:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/?p=79446"},"modified":"2021-05-18T18:04:31","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T12:34:31","slug":"abolishment-of-sales-tax-for-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/abolishment-of-sales-tax-for-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Abolishment Of Sales Tax for Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_79447\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-79447\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-79447 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Tax.jpeg\" alt=\"Sales Tax Removal\" width=\"1280\" height=\"669\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Tax.jpeg 1280w, https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Tax-300x157.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Tax-768x401.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Tax-600x314.jpeg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-79447\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sales tax on books<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The State of Travancore \u2013 Cochin was imposing tax for the sale of books. This was when DC Kizhakemuri, the driving force behind SPCS\u00a0 convinced the \u00a0necessity of knowledge, reading \u00a0&amp; education to his jailmate A.J. John who was the Finance Minister of Travancore-Cochin during the freedom struggle.<\/p>\n<p>A.J. John quickly grasped the sense of it and he made the landmark decision in his budget speech. This paved the way for the then Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru to emulate the same and passed a law exempting \u00a0books of Sales tax through out India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The State of Travancore \u2013 Cochin was imposing tax for the sale of books. This was when DC Kizhakemuri, the driving force behind SPCS\u00a0 convinced the \u00a0necessity of knowledge, reading \u00a0&amp; education to his jailmate A.J. John who was the Finance Minister of Travancore-Cochin during the freedom struggle. A.J. John quickly grasped the sense of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":79447,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2171],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79446"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79446"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79448,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79446\/revisions\/79448"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcbooks.com\/promotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}