{"id":76753,"date":"2026-09-24T21:31:25","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T21:31:25","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-09-24T21:31:25","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T21:31:25","slug":"gst-council-to-take-a-view-on-gst-on-upi-mdr-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/?p=76753","title":{"rendered":"GST Council to take a view on GST on UPI MDR: Sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GST Council to take a view on GST on UPI MDR: Sources<BR>GST<BR>Dated:- 24-9-2026<BR>PTI<BR>New Delhi, Sep 24 (PTI) The GST Council, chaired by the Union Finance Minister, will take a view on GST levy on merchant fees for UPI transactions above Rs 2,000, government sources said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Effective October 15, UPI payments to merchants (P2M) above Rs 2,000 will attract a 0.4 per cent merchant discount rate (MDR) with an overall cap of Rs 300.<\/p>\n<p>Sources said services attract GST, decided by the Goods and Services Tax Council, chaired by the Finance Minister and comprising state counterparts.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are hopeful that the GST Council will take a view on the 18 per cent GST on merchant fee on UPI transactions in the larger interest of cons<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Plain text (Extract) only<\/strong><BR>For full text:-<a href=\"https:\/\/www.taxtmi.com\/news?id=74984\">Visit the Source <\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GST Council to take a view on GST on UPI MDR: SourcesGSTDated:- 24-9-2026PTINew Delhi, Sep 24 (PTI) The GST Council, chaired by the Union Finance Minister, will take a view on GST levy on merchant fees for UPI transactions above Rs 2,000, government so&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}