Centre monitors GST cut benefits on e-commerce platformsThe Centre is monitoring whether e-commerce platforms are passing on GST rate cut benefits on FMCG items. The revised GST structure is expected to lower prices for 99 per cent of daily-use goodsBy PTI Published Date - 23 September 2025, 02:26 PMNew Delhi: The Centre is monitoring whether the GST rate cut benefits on FMCG items are being passed on by e-commerce platforms, government sources said on Tuesday. Amid complaints of inadequate price reductions for daily essential items sold on some e-commerce platforms, sources said the field formations are monitoring the price changes. Effective September 22, Goods and Services Tax (GST) has become a two-tier structure of 5 and 18 per cent. On September 9, the finance ministry had written to Central GST field officers to submit a monthly report of price changes in 54 commonly used items.