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Centre Proposes MDR On Debit Card Transactions To Be Capped At Rs. 200

The merchant discount rate is the amount merchants have to pay to the banks for opting for their PoS services and currently it is based on the transaction amount.

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To augment payment through digital route, Centre has now been seen to ask the apex bank to increase the MDR for a merchant. MDR or Merchant discount rate is the amount the merchant is required to shell out to the banks for availing card services. The rationale given is that the amount lost as MDR would then by compensated by the digital payments as the latter is expected to witness a surge.

 

 Centre Proposes MDR On Debit Card Transactions To Be Capped At Rs. 200
For the same, the RBI is yet to release the final guidelines and the centre has proposed a maximum of Rs. 200 to be charged as MDR. For debit card transactions, MDR paid by merchants to banks for transactions costing less than Rs. 1000 is 0.25% while for transactions costing between Rs. 1000 and Rs. 2000, it is a maximum of 0.5% while for high-end transactions it is a maximum of 1%.

The current MDR charges are based on transaction value whereas the draft guidelines require these charges to be rationalized based on the merchant's turnover instead of the transaction costs. Bankers are also favouring the call put forward but RBI is still to notify changes in the MDR charges.

 

Also, the draft guidelines put forth by the RBI, merchants using physical PoS and digital PoS will need to shell out a maximum of 0.4% and 0.3% per transaction; if their annual turnover is less than Rs. 20 lakh, Others will have to pay 0.95% and 0.85% respectively. For government transactions also MDR rates have been stipulated.

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Story first published: Tuesday, September 19, 2017, 15:01 [IST]
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