GST Council meeting: Onus of deducting TCS may be on ONDC sellers

Tuesday's GST Council meet likely to put out clarification

The Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council in its meeting on Tuesday likely to put out a clarification about the tax collected at source (TCS) liability of suppliers in context with the newly-introduced ONDC model. It may clarify that TCS would be deducted by the seller app while making a payment to the supplier, if there are multiple e-commerce operators (ECO) involved in a single transaction. 

The Open Network for Digital Commerce or ONDC model is intended to democratise digital commerce and move it from a platform-centric model, such as Amazon and Zomato, to an open-network model in a bid to