The food tax that points to a loss of clarity on GST

At its meeting on Friday, India’s GST Council decided among other things to shift the point at which goods and service tax (GST) would be levied on restaurants fulfilling food-delivery orders via aggregator apps such as Zomato and Swiggy. Starting next calendar year, e-com operators ferrying orders from eateries to homes will have to collect this charge for our tax authorities, rather than food-su…