{"id":25871,"date":"2026-03-25T09:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T09:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.samco.in\/help-support\/?post_type=ht_kb&#038;p=25871"},"modified":"2026-03-25T09:59:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T09:59:23","slug":"what-is-igst-and-why-is-it-charged","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/www.samco.in\/help-support\/article\/what-is-igst-and-why-is-it-charged\/","title":{"rendered":"What is IGST and why is it charged?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>IGST (Integrated Goods and Services Tax) is an Indian government tax charged at 18% on the brokerage amount for all US stock trades. It is applicable to Indian residents only.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Think of it the same way GST is applied on brokerage for your Indian stock trades and it works exactly the same way for US stocks too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For example, if your brokerage on a trade is $1.00, IGST of 18% would be $0.18, making your total brokerage cost $1.18.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"ht_kb_category":[2839],"ht_kb_tag":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samco.in\/help-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht_kb\/25871"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samco.in\/help-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht_kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samco.in\/help-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ht_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samco.in\/help-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samco.in\/help-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25871"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.samco.in\/help-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht_kb\/25871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25873,"href":"https:\/\/www.samco.in\/help-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht_kb\/25871\/revisions\/25873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samco.in\/help-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samco.in\/help-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht_kb_category?post=25871"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samco.in\/help-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht_kb_tag?post=25871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}