Tax authorities say Uber liable for service tax, seek information from India subsidiary

NEW DELHI: Uber, the taxi app that became pop­u­lar in India by offer­ing lux­u­ry car rides for a lit­tle more than the reg­u­lar fare, could run into trou­ble with Indi­a’s ser­vice taxauthor­i­ties in the first such inquiry against a for­eign ser­vice provider in the ecom­merce space. This comes short­ly after the com­pa­ny was recent­ly forced to fall in line by theReserve Bank of India, which insist­ed that it could­n’t side­step cred­it card secu­ri­ty norms.