{"id":1042586,"date":"2026-10-12T11:00:43","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T05:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1042586"},"modified":"2026-10-12T12:01:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T06:31:07","slug":"upi-mdr-charges-will-consumer-prices-rise-at-stores-if-merchants-start-paying-a-nominal-fee-govt-answers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/12\/upi-mdr-charges-will-consumer-prices-rise-at-stores-if-merchants-start-paying-a-nominal-fee-govt-answers\/","title":{"rendered":"UPI MDR Charges: Will consumer prices rise at stores if merchants start paying a nominal fee? Govt answers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The central government announced in September that it would end more than six years of zero-fee UPI usage by introducing a 0.4% surcharge on merchant transactions above \u20b92,000, capped at \u20b9300 for payments of \u20b975,000 and above.<\/p>\n<p>The decision led to immediate pushback from local business owners, who argued that the extra charge could eat into their margins on products and services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The central government announced in September that it would end more than six years of zero-fee UPI usage by introducing a 0.4% surcharge on merchant transactions above \u20b92,000, capped at \u20b9300 for payments of \u20b975,000 and above. The decision led to immediate pushback from local business owners, who argued that the extra charge could eat into their margins on products and services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1042586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042586","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1042586"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1042587,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042586\/revisions\/1042587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1042586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1042586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1042586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}