{"id":297263,"date":"2025-04-23T21:21:46","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T15:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=297263"},"modified":"2025-04-23T21:21:46","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T15:51:46","slug":"false-claim-of-gst-on-upi-payments-above-rs-2000-goes-viral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/false-claim-of-gst-on-upi-payments-above-rs-2000-goes-viral\/","title":{"rendered":"No GST on UPI transactions above Rs 2,000; finance ministry calls social media claims baseless"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Recently, several posts claiming that the Indian government was planning to tax transactions above Rs 2,000 made using the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) were viral on social media. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">UPI is an instant mobile-based payment system developed by the National Payments Corporation of India, or NPCI. It facilitates the easy transfer of money between two bank accounts using just a smartphone without requiring users to enter bank details each time. Currently, users are not charged for UPI transactions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Instagram user @startupbydoc shared a graphic on April 14 claiming that UPI was no longer free, and as per the new rule, Goods and Services Tax (GST) would be charged on payments exceeding Rs 2,000. This slide has now been deleted, but at the time we took this screenshot, the post had received nearly 25,000 likes. (<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/ghostarchive.org\/archive\/lX1zB?wr=false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Archive<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/hindi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/Screenshot-2025-04-19-164427.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">X user @CaVivekkhatri posted on April 17 that the Indian government was reportedly considering imposing GST on UPI transactions above Rs 2,000. (<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/XqJuK\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Archive<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/hindi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/Screenshot-2025-04-19-182734.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Similarly, <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/pmOAy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social media users<\/a> and websites, including Indian stockbroking firms such as <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/lWoyk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Angel One<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/tYXzw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cashify<\/a> also amplified the claims<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-297263 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-full'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon 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src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/04\/Screenshot-2025-04-19-174158.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/04\/Screenshot-2025-04-19-174158.jpg 2376w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/04\/Screenshot-2025-04-19-174158-300x217.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/04\/Screenshot-2025-04-19-174158-1024x740.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/04\/Screenshot-2025-04-19-174158-768x555.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/04\/Screenshot-2025-04-19-174158-1536x1109.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/04\/Screenshot-2025-04-19-174158-2048x1479.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2376px) 100vw, 2376px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<h4><b>Fact Check<\/b><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Alt News did a keyword search using the terms mentioned in the viral post but did not come across news reports citing any official source claiming that the Indian government is considering imposing GST on UPI transactions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We then came across a <a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleseDetailm.aspx?PRID=2122747&amp;reg=3&amp;lang=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">press release<\/a> issued by the Ministry of Finance on April 18. In it, the ministry rejected claims that it is planning on imposing GST on UPI transactions above Rs 2,000 and called the rumours &#8220;completely false, misleading, and without any basis.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/hindi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/Screenshot-2025-04-19-183135.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To sum up, several social media users and websites posted and published false claims that the government was planning on imposing GST on UPI transactions above Rs 2,000, without any verification.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, several posts claiming that the Indian government was planning to tax transactions above Rs 2,000 made using the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) were viral on social media. UPI is an instant mobile-based payment system developed by the National Payments Corporation of India, or NPCI. It facilitates the easy transfer of money between two bank [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":297326,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"an_content_type":[],"coauthors":[701],"class_list":["post-297263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","fact_checks_claim_type-social-media-claims"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>No GST on UPI transactions above Rs 2,000; finance ministry calls social media claims baseless - Alt News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"No GST on UPI transactions above Rs 2,000; finance ministry calls social media claims baseless - Alt News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Recently, several posts claiming that the Indian government was planning to tax transactions above Rs 2,000 made using the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) were viral on social media. 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