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Government plans to include GST in UPI QR code

March 19, 2021 admin Comments 0 Comment

The government is looking at upgrading the QR code for UPI in such a way that it can incorporate the GST component and show the same separately. This will enable the government to come out with fiscal incentives for payments that are made digitally.

The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) is working on UPI to enable this feature, CEO Dilip Asbe revealed. According to Asbe, when both ends of the payment are driven by software with information going to a cloud, there is no limit to the innovation that can take place. Additionally, information provided to the merchant and customer can grow manifold.

He said that the NPCI was working with banks and payment companies to create the capacity to handle a billion UPI transactions daily. “UPI has grown 250% in nine months. It is a journey where everyone has to keep investing,” he said.

Asbe was speaking at an event organised by Paytm to launch an upgraded version of its soundbox, which provides payment confirmation through audio and a screen. The payment company also launched a software application developed jointly with Visa which enables any NFC-equipped smartphone to accept contactless card payments from all card networks.

Speaking at the launch, Paytm founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma said that the company has sold 9 lakh point-of-sale (PoS) devices in 18 months and was targeting to upgrade 50 lakh merchants to accepting contactless payment over smartphones and IoT (internet of things, or net-connected) devices.

Sharma said that Paytm was already working on developing the dynamic QR that could incorporate GST. Speaking at the same event, Visa’s India chief T R Ramachandran said that with 25 billion IoT devices in the world, the scope for contactless payments has increased. He said that over 50 countries have increased their limit for contactless payments and the RBI has also revised the limit after analysing years of fraud data.

On the proposed licences for the new umbrella entities proposed by the RBI, Ramachandran said that the heterogeneous nature of the Indian market meant that one size does not fit all. He pointed out that there were under-penetrated segments in digital payments, such as B2B transactions and cross-border remittances. “It requires a thousand flowers to bloom to satisfy the appetite of India,” he said.

Source: Times-Of-India.

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NPCI clears GST sops for UPI QR code payments

September 11, 2019 admin Comments 0 Comment

Consumers and merchants might be able to avail tax incentives for digital payments through QR code on Unified Payments Interface (UPI) from next year. This is because a proposal to this effect has been approved by members of the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), which manages the platform.

According to people present in the last steering committee meeting in August, consumers and merchants can get tax benefits upon sharing their PAN and GSTIN details respectively. This comes at a time when UPI has emerged as a popular payments instrument and it clocked an all-time high of over 918 million transactions in August.

It was decided in the meeting that the consumers’ PAN data, when shared with consent, should be stored in an encrypted format with NPCI. A person aware of the goings-on said NPCI would now submit an implementation plan to the government on this and it could be a reality in 2020. A formal timeline has not been decided yet. This is in line with the government’s move to incentivise digital payments as it has set a target of 40 billion digital transactions by March 2020. While UPI transactions have risen steadily in the last one year, it is also challenging dominance of other instruments like credit or debit cards, TOI had reported last month.

“This proposal first came from the department of revenue, and it was then discussed among the steering committee members. Upon the availability of GSTIN for the merchant entity and PAN of customers, they should be able to get such tax benefits. It was made clear that this should be collected on basis of consent only,” the source said. An email to NPCI did not elicit any response on the matter. During the meeting, it was suggested that this can be implemented in the first phase with merchants and then with customers, which should fast-track the overall implementation process. The proof of concept is likely to be tested with two banks initially. Another industry source aware of the matter said, eventually, this would be like cashbacks. “The idea is to offer a percentage of the GST being paid on a purchase back to consumers. This would boost digital payments, tax compliance for merchants and further adoption of UPI QR codes,” the source added. The quantum of the incentives would depend on multiple factors including transaction size. These details are yet to be