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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Expect your household budget to shoot up: Going cashless comes at a cost -Tinesh Bhasin & Priya Nair

Expect your household budget to shoot up: Going cashless comes at a cost -Tinesh Bhasin & Priya Nair

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published Published on Nov 21, 2016   modified Modified on Nov 21, 2016
-Business Standard

When you start using digital payment options, your household budget is likely to shoot up

The government’s demonetisation drive has caused a cash crunch, forcing people to look at plastic money and other forms of digital payments. But, for a society accustomed to physical notes, the transition to cashless comes at a cost. Many households are likely to see their budgets shoot up as they pay more at merchant establishments that accept digital payments.

Around 95 per cent of consumer transactions by volume and 65 per cent by value are carried out in cash in India, according to a JM Financial report. “India is still a cash-intensive economy with a cash-to-GDP ratio of over 12 per cent,” the report states. Life has become difficult as the higher-denomination notes of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 accounted for 86.4 per cent of the total currency in circulation by value as on March 31, 2016, according to the Reserve Bank of India’s data.

“Consumers have no option but to opt for digital transactions after the demonetisation, and for this they will need to bear additional costs,” says Madan Sabnavis, chief economist, CARE Ratings. He points out that though ATM transaction charges have been waived, other charges remain. Some of these are service charge for booking tickets online (Rs 20-40 plus tax) and a surcharge on using cards at petrol pumps (except on cards that specifically waive the surcharge). This is 0.75-1 per cent on debit cards and around 2.5 per cent on credit cards. “While it has been recommended that these additional charges be done away with, this has not been implemented yet. Today, when a financial transaction is done using a debit or credit card, the merchant incurs an additional cost, which in many cases he passes on to the customer,” says Sabnavis.

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Business Standard, 21 November, 2016, http://www.business-standard.com/article/pf/expect-your-household-budget-to-shoot-up-going-cashless-comes-at-a-cost-116112000867_1.html


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