{"id":1036633,"date":"2026-09-18T09:12:38","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T03:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1036633"},"modified":"2026-09-18T09:18:39","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T03:48:39","slug":"mdr-to-make-upi-durable-let-more-players-in-govt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/18\/mdr-to-make-upi-durable-let-more-players-in-govt\/","title":{"rendered":"MDR to make UPI durable, let more players in: Govt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The government on Thursday firmly refuted the charge that introducing Merchant Discount Rate (MDR) charges on select UPI transactions was driven by pressure from the US Trade Representative (USTR), and stated that the rationale behind the move was to make the Indian payment ecosystem financially sustainable and create room for new players. <\/p>\n<p>The GST Council could also look at whether any residual issues remain regarding GST on MDR, as much of the tax incidence is either likely to be offset through input tax credit or not applicable to smaller businesses, sources said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government on Thursday firmly refuted the charge that introducing Merchant Discount Rate (MDR) charges on select UPI transactions was driven by pressure from the US Trade Representative (USTR), and stated that the rationale behind the move was to make the Indian payment ecosystem financially sustainable and create room for new players. The GST Council could also look at whether any residual issues remain regarding GST on MDR, as much of the tax incidence is either likely to be offset through input tax credit or not applicable to smaller businesses, sources said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1036633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1036633"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1036656,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036633\/revisions\/1036656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1036633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1036633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1036633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}