Karnataka government impose additional transaction fee on Zomato, Swiggy, Zepto and other online platforms; how this may be bad news for users

The Karnataka government has introduced a new fee on transactions conducted through aggregator platforms like Zomato, Swiggy, Ola, Uber and others to fund social security measures for gig workers. The state government announced that the money collected will be used for the welfare of the gig workers.
Karnataka Labour Minister Santosh Lad said, “The Labour Department of Karnataka has decided to impose cess on every transaction on aggregators platforms like Zomato, Dunzo, Swiggy, Zepto, Ola and others such.