{"id":1039381,"date":"2026-09-29T08:30:25","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T03:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1039381"},"modified":"2026-09-29T08:36:06","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T03:06:06","slug":"top-court-to-govt-charges-on-upi-merchant-transactions-above-rs-2000-tax-or-fee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/29\/top-court-to-govt-charges-on-upi-merchant-transactions-above-rs-2000-tax-or-fee\/","title":{"rendered":"Top court to govt: Charges on UPI merchant transactions above Rs 2,000 tax or fee?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court on Monday asked the Centre to explain its logic for imposing charges on UPI transactions above \u20b92,000, asking whether it was \u201ca tax or a fee\u201d, but did not stay the measure. <\/p>\n<p>The bench of Chief Justice Surya Kant, Justice Joymalya Bagchi and Justice V. Mohana issued notices to the Union government, Reserve Bank and the National Payments Corporation of India on a petition from an advocate, Anjan Datta.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court on Monday asked the Centre to explain its logic for imposing charges on UPI transactions above \u20b92,000, asking whether it was \u201ca tax or a fee\u201d, but did not stay the measure. The bench of Chief Justice Surya Kant, Justice Joymalya Bagchi and Justice V. Mohana issued notices to the Union government, Reserve Bank and the National Payments Corporation of India on a petition from an advocate, Anjan Datta.<\/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":[83,4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1039381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039381","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=1039381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1039400,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039381\/revisions\/1039400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1039381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1039381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1039381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}