Bengaluru street vendors threaten three-day protest against GST notices on UPI payments

A Bengaluru-based organisation on Monday said small merchants and street vendors will hold a three-day protest from July 23, including a bandh on the last day, demanding the withdrawal of GST notices issued to them for carrying out all their transactions over the past four years via UPI.

“The notices have come as a shocker to small businessmen. The small traders will not sell milk and milk-based products on July 23-24 and do their business wearing a black badge,” Karnataka labour council president Ravi Shetty Byndoor, along with other office…