NEW · DIGITAL ECONOMY / GST / REGULATORY DESIGN · 16 OCTOBER 2026
Uniformity Is Not Blindness
Why digital tax policy must examine what platforms actually do
India’s own regulators, tax circulars and courts distinguish technology, intermediation and the underlying commercial activity. Passenger-platform policy deserves the same examination.
Read the insight →UPDATED · POST-COUNCIL POLICY PERSPECTIVE · 11 OCTOBER 2026
Increase Driver Income. Keep India’s Digital Mobility Open.
TLGS calls for an elected-Government-led hearing of Rapido’s technology-only proposal: higher driver income, fair GST treatment and room for Indian innovation.
Read the case for a joint stakeholder hearing →Bharat Pulse · TLGS Research
GST & Platform-Economy Policy
Policy perspectives connected to TLGS’s research and advisory work. Proposals and institutional developments are labelled separately.
Bharat Pulse · TLGS policy perspective
Section 9(5): digital facilitation or economic intermediation?
Why the proposed assessment focuses on actual platform functions, not a business label—and why passenger mobility must be analysed on its own facts.
Published 13 September 2026 · Explains an ongoing TLGS proposal. Not a notification, tax exemption or report of government acceptance.
GST Council policy matters
Policy clarity for India’s
digital mobility economy.
A major TLGS policy mandate addressing the GST treatment of electronic commerce operators in passenger mobility: statutory research, a conduct-based clarification proposal, fiscal safeguards and coordinated Union–State policy engagement.
Ongoing policy engagement — clarification sought