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Tax benefits to consumers, merchants to boost digital payment adoption: CAIT

06 Sep 2017 Evaluate

In a bid to give a push to digital payment adoption, traders body the Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT) has suggested measures including tax benefits to consumers as well as merchants and also recommended formulation of a digital payments policy. For achieving a target of Rs 2,500 crore digital transactions till March 2018, it said that the government needs to set up a regulatory authority for digital payment systems.

Traders’ body also suggested implementation of reward scheme for merchants and consumers, faster adoption of mobile QR code-based card acceptance solutions, formation of digital payments Board and an authority to monitor RuPay. CAIT also urged the government to implement the recommendations of the Watal Committee report on digital payments at the earliest. Besides, CAIT Secretary General Praveen Khandelwal has stated that the Centre should provide tax rebates and incentives for consumers of certain types of digital payments (government receipts, petrol and education). He also said that there should also be tax rebates for merchants either in the form of sales tax.

In order to encourage universal adoption and socialisation of digital payments, Khandelwal said that the government should remove the requirement for banks to report electronic transactions and make consumers fearless to go for cashless economy. He also said that there should be no card refusal and no surcharge should be levied on digital payments as it would act as a deterrent to promote such payments. He also noted that there is a need to increase Point of Sale (PoS) terminals besides allowing non-bank finance companies to issue digital payment products. He further highlighted that today 96 percent of transactions in India are done in cash and the country has only about 25 lakh PoS terminals.

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