TRICHY
: Minister for commercial taxes and registration P Moorthy charged the previous AIADMK government of leaving a debt of Rs 5 lakh crore and blamed the BJP-led government for the skyrocketing prices of petrol and diesel.
“The previous government has left a debt of Rs 5 lakh crore. The Union government is bagging higher tax revenue from petrol and diesel. We have insisted on reducing the taxes. In the state, CM will implement the promises given in the election manifesto gradually,” Moorthy said on Monday.
Moorthy was chairing a consultative meeting at National College in Trichy with state ministers including K N Nehru, S Regupathy, S S Sivasankar, Siva V Meyyanathan and government chief whip Govi Chezhian, MLAs and traders from Trichy, Ariyalur, Perambalur, Pudukottai,
Thanjavur
, Tiruvarur, Nagapattinam and Mayiladuthurai districts. Nehru released the book on GST Rate of tax on goods with HSC code in Tamil. The minister said that opinions elicited from the traders will be brought to the notice of the CM and submitted to the GST councils.
The minister also encouraged the traders to enroll themselves as members in the traders’ welfare board. The small traders need not pay the fee for enrollment of Rs 500 for the three months. On the efforts to increase the state’s revenue, he said the government is in the process of clearing shortcomings and anomalies in the GST.
Issuing a stern warning against the promoters of the shell companies, the minister appealed to the traders to cooperate with the government to identify such companies to stop tax evasion. Moorthy said that the registration of unapproved plots will land the buyers in serious trouble.