{"id":251203,"date":"2025-11-08T12:19:21","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T12:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/251203\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T12:19:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T12:19:21","slug":"govt-eliminates-service-fees-for-online-payments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/251203\/","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":251204,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[104688,78838,436,22332,2306,1780,468,5136,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-251203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-eliminates","tag-fees","tag-for","tag-govt","tag-mobile","tag-online","tag-payments","tag-service","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}