Parl panel: Extend GST Composition Scheme to e-sellers; onboarding MSMEs should be obligatory for e-commerce portals

Ease of Doing Business for MSMEs: A Parliamentary committee report on the promotion and regulation of e-commerce in India has opined multiple steps for the government to be taken to boost MSMEs’ e-commerce participation. Among the key suggestions in the report, submitted to the Rajya Sabha secretariat on Wednesday, was to extend the Goods and Services Taxes (GST) Composition Scheme to online sellers subject to the turnover threshold of Rs 1.5 crore in order to incentivise MSMEs toward e-commerce adoption.