GST anti-profiteering: FinMin serves notices to McDonald’s franchisee, 2 others, after complaints arise

Notices have been served to Hardcastle Restaurants Pvt Ltd, the master franchisee of fast-food chain McDonald’s in western and southern India, Lifestyle International and Sharma Trading Ltd, a Jaipur-based dealer of Hindustan Unilever’s Vaseline, in relation to anti-profiteering complaints filed by consumers under the new Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime. Directorate General of Safeguards, the…