If your e-commerce company has a complaint and no one is resolving it, you can probably move the Prime Minister’s Office
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E-commerce players can send their complaints to the highest levels, even the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO). Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s office is looking into the complaints filed by the e-commerce companies on several issues. The top officials held a meeting at
"There are a number of issues confronting the sector, including foreign investment, taxation, the idea was to take a stock,” a government official told ET.
The government has set up a committee to review the ecommerce policy and issues faced by companies, under
Taxation has emerged as a major irritant for the ecommerce sector along with restrictions imposed by state governments.
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Offline retailers also met the
A separate entry tax has been imposed on goods sold via online portals by many states like Gujarat so as to save the offline retailer’ sale.
The government however, sees ecommerce as having a tremendous potential for job creation by providing market access to small entrepreneurs and businesses that would find setting up physical retail establishments too expensive.
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