{"id":168215,"date":"2025-11-07T16:50:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T16:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/168215\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T16:50:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T16:50:10","slug":"govt-eliminates-service-fees-for-online-payments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/168215\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt Eliminates Service Fees for Online Payments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>COLOMBO (News 1st); President Anura Kumara Dissanayake announced that all service fees for electronic payments to government institutions will be waived starting January 1, 2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The initiative, unveiled during the 2026 Budget presentation, is designed to make digital transactions more accessible and cost-effective for citizens.<\/p>\n<p>To further encourage cashless payments, the government will introduce a special provision under the Ministry of Digital Economy to enable QR code payments below Rs. 5,000 to be processed free of charge.<\/p>\n<p>This measure is expected to significantly boost adoption of QR-based transactions across retail and public services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COLOMBO (News 1st); President Anura Kumara Dissanayake announced that all service fees for electronic payments to government institutions&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168216,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[257],"tags":[18,96549,63472,4080,46503,19,17,279,7219,4592,13960,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-168215","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-eliminates","10":"tag-fees","11":"tag-for","12":"tag-govt","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-mobile","16":"tag-online","17":"tag-payments","18":"tag-service","19":"tag-technology"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115509449362834201","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}