Digital Economy

RBI’sCoF and Tokenisation Guidelines – Assessing the Preparedness of the Payments Ecosystem

About the White Paper: The Reserve Bank of India mandated the deletion of card-on-file data by merchants and PA/PGs. Industry bodies and civil-society organisations gave inputs seeking an extension of this deadline in December last year, including The Dialogue and Deepstrat which published a paper outlining the challenges associated with rushed compliance. The RBI, taking

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Virtual Stakeholder Consultation on Foreign Trade Policy and E-Commerce

The discussion at the event revolved around India’s upcoming foreign trade policy for 2021-26, with a focus on the role of e-commerce exports in boosting MSME’s and the economy at large. The discourse allowed for diverse views to be presented, with the role various stakeholders can play in regulating this sector in a positive manner

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Virtual Stakeholder Consultation on Payment Aggregators and Payment Gateways (PAPG) guidelines and its impact on digitisation

The Dialogue conducted a webinar on ‘The Payment Aggregators and Payment Gateways (PAPG) guidelines’ on March 30, 2021, to spur discussion and progressive discourse around the issues surrounding the PAPG guidelines put forward by the RBI, and evaluate the optimal policy measures that can be put in place to address these challenges in the Indian

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Roundtable Discussion on ‘Enabling a Trillion Dollar Digital Economy: Independent, Interconnected and Digital’ Report Launch | The Dialogue and ASSOCHAM

The Associated Chambers of Commerce of India (ASSOCHAM), the oldest, largest and Apex Chamber of Commerce and Industry of India and The Dialogue, a New Delhi based independent think-tank,  held an Industry Roundtable Discussion and the launch of the Study ‘Enabling a Trillion Dollar Digital Economy: Independent, Interconnected and Digital’ on Friday, 26 February, 2021.

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Equalisation levy 2020 — looking at India’s digital tax

The Finance Act 2020 came up with several new tax provisions, one of which expanded the scope of 2016 equalisation levy to include e-commerce transactions. The Act introduced Section 153(iv), which added Section 165A to the Finance Act 2016 to put an equalisation levy charged at 2% on the non-resident e-commerce operators. This levy was

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