{"id":26656,"date":"2024-09-18T06:52:20","date_gmt":"2024-09-18T01:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=26656"},"modified":"2025-10-13T12:39:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T07:09:11","slug":"online-information-and-database-access-or-retrieval-oidar-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/online-information-and-database-access-or-retrieval-oidar-services\/","title":{"rendered":"Online Information and Database Access or Retrieval (OIDAR) services"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Online Information and Database Access or Retrieval (OIDAR) services:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>category of services<\/strong> provided through the <strong>medium of the internet<\/strong>, and received by the recipient online without having any physical interface with the supplier of such services.<\/li>\n<li>OIDAR services, delivered over the internet or electronic networks, are highly <strong>dependent on information technology<\/strong> and include offerings such as cloud services, digital content, online gaming, and online advertising.<\/li>\n<li>When such services are provided by an offshore entity to a non-taxable recipient, the supplier becomes <strong>liable for obtaining registration<\/strong> and discharging <strong>GST on the same.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Criteria to determine an OIDAR Service<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>These are the services whose delivery is mediated by information technology over the internet\/electronic network and Services are automated and impossible to ensure in the absence of internet technology.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Currently, as many as 574 offshore entities providing OIDAR Services have registered themselves with the GST department, and <strong>annual revenue<\/strong> from this sector has increased from <strong>Rs 80 crore<\/strong> for the FY 2017-18 to <strong>Rs 2,675 crore<\/strong> for 2023-24 fiscal.<\/li>\n<li>DGGI in its annual report noted that since the OIDAR service providers are located abroad it becomes a challenge in GST enforcement and hence the sector remains relatively untapped and holds tremendous revenue potential.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What Is Cloud Computing?<\/h3>\n<p>Cloud computing is the on-demand delivery of computing services such as servers, storage, databases, networking, software, and analytics. Rather than keeping files on a proprietary hard drive or local storage device, cloud-based storage makes it possible to save remotely.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.financialexpress.com\/life\/technology-oidar-services-sector-untapped-holds-tremendous-revenue-potential-dggi-3612511\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">OIDAR services sector \u201cuntapped\u201d, holds \u201ctremendous\u201d revenue potential: DGGI<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Online Information and Database Access or Retrieval (OIDAR) services  is a category of services provided through the medium of the internet, and received by the recipient online without having any physical interface with the supplier of such services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":26657,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-26656","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}