Traders’ body Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT), on Sunday urged Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman to amend Section 24 and Section 52 of the Goods and Services Tax Act to ease online selling for small businesses. In a letter to the minister, CAIT requested an exemption for traders from GST registration for selling on e-commerce portals under Section 24 even as the government has mandated the registration for businesses with sales turnover above Rs 20 lakh in case of the supply of services and more than Rs 40 lakh in case of the supply of goods.

CAIT also requested Nirmala Sitharaman to levy the one per cent GST tax on e-commerce marketplaces or aggregators for all transactions on their respective platforms. The government in December 2020 had mandated businesses with a turnover of more than Rs 50 lakh to pay at least 1 per cent of their GST liability in cash. The move was intended to check the use of fake invoices to evade GST.