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GOODS AND SERVICES TAX 2.0 E-comm platforms under govt watch
Financial Express Mumbai
|October 01, 2025
E-COMMERCE PLATFORM OPERATORS such as Flipkart, Amazon, Blinkit and Zepto are under the government’s lens for hiking prices of certain items despite sweeping rate cuts under GST 2.0 that became effective September 22.
After receiving several complaints from the public about a price hike for certain items, the government sent out queries to a few e-commerce platforms asking about the reasoning behind the price hike.
This story is from the October 01, 2025 edition of Financial Express Mumbai.
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