Content creators' income from ‘X’ will be subjected to GST? Experts say…

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Elon musk had earlier in August announced that the subscribers of X Premium (Blue) will be eligible to receive their share in the ad revenue. The remuneration that individuals will receive from ‘X’, formerly known as Twitter, as part of its advertisement revenue are likely to be taxed 18% GST, experts have told news agency PTI. Experts are of the opinion that ad revenue received by individuals from microblogging platform ‘X’, will be treated as supply under the GST law and will be subject to 18 per cent tax.

However, they have also mentioned to PTI that the tax will only be imposed if the total income from various services, including rental income, interest on bank fixed deposit, and other professional services, rendered by an individual exceeds ₹20 lakh in a year. Elon Musk had said that if an account has more than 15 million organic impressions on their posts within a span of three months those individuals will be eligible for the revenue sharing programme. Musk had further said that the account needed to have at least 500 followers to receive ad revenue.

On 8 August, Elon Musk had shared that Twitter had paid premium users thousands of dollars this week in advertising revenue. This individuals primarily include content creators on X, who can set up Ad Revenue Sharing and Creator Subscriptions independently. Several users had also shared that X or Twitter had paid them ad revenue.

“Twitter just paid me $120.65 for 21,400,000 impressions in the past 104 days. For what it's worth, YouTube paid me $241.31 in that exact same amount of time for 928,593 views and 6,159,005 impressions," said one user. According to a report by PTI, experts have said that to levy the 18% Goods and Services Tax (GST) on the total income ₹20