If you collect as an agent
You walk a route and carry other people's money. These cover appointment, what you are paid, tax, and how to keep a round defensible.
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Become a pigmy agent
Appointment, surety and security deposit, and what institutions require.
How to become a pigmy collection agent
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Understand what you are paid
Commission rates, how they are calculated, and the state caps that limit them.
Pigmy agent commission: rates, state caps and the tax question
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Run a round that stands up
The receipt, remittance and record practice that protects you if a deposit is disputed.
Running a compliant collection round
- 04
See how the whole collection works
The full flow from the door to the ledger, and where it breaks down.
How pigmy collection works, step by step
- 05
Know where you stand on GST
What the Karnataka High Court held about GST on pigmy agents' commission.
Karnataka HC pigmy agents GST ruling
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Check your state's commission cap
Maharashtra's cap on pigmy commission across credit co-operatives, and what changed.
Maharashtra pigmy commission cap
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