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JAMMU: Congress on Wednesday questioned the State Government decision to incentivise the tax defaulters and tax evaders at the cost of genuine tax payers, which would cause huge loss to the State exchequer.
Reacting to the government announcement of grant of 100 per cent amnesty to GST defaulters and the tax evaders, on penalty and interests, PCC chief Spokesperson Ravinder Sharma termed the same as an attempt to incentivize to the defaulters and tax evaders, without going into the genuineness of any such case on individual merit.
This kind of general amnesty to the tax defaulter and evaders would amount to in due favour and encouraging the tendency of avoiding payment of tax already collected from consumers and used by them for over a decade.
He said that government has incentivized and favoured the unscrupulous elements who seem to wield considerable influence over the policy decision of PDP-BJP government whereby huge loss would be caused to the state exchequer, for which government Owes an explanation to the general public.
He said that government could have set up the mechanism to examine the genuineness of any such claim on individual basis, in a transparent manner but general GST amnesty is highly objectionable needs to be recalled and rolled back.