{
  "id": 7572836,
  "title": "Govt Introduces 0.4% MDR On Large UPI Merchant Payments, Caps Fee At ₹300",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/15/govt-introduces-0-4-mdr-on-large-upi-merchant-payments-caps-fee-at-300",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-09-15T14:28:47.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Free Press Journal",
    "slug": "free-press-journal",
    "url": "https://www.freepressjournal.in/business/govt-introduces-04-mdr-on-large-upi-merchant-payments-caps-fee-at-300"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "New Delhi, Sep 15: The government on Tuesday set a 0.4 per cent charge on UPI payments above Rs 2,000 to merchants and capped the fee at Rs 300 for payments of Rs 75,000 and above as it rolled out a framework for large digital merchant payments. New UPI fee framework announced The move ends the zero-MDR regime that has been in place since January 2020, introduced to drive digital payments…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}