Fake News Buster: Double GST on payments made using Credit Cards?

 

NEW DELHI: A story doing the rounds on social media claims that if you pay your utility bills using credit cards, you will end up paying double GST, ‘once for the service, second on the credit card amount’.

Dr Hasmukh Adhia, Revenue Secy, Ministry of Finance, tweeted: This is completely untrue. Please do not recirculate such message without checking it with authority. (agencies)