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| Opposition opposed to any fresh tax hike | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Jan 24- The opposition BJP has decided to “oppose” any move of the National Conference-Congress ruling alliance to impose fresh taxes in Jammu and Kashmir.
Stating this here today, the BJP state President, Ashok Khajuria, today said “we will not allow the Finance Minister, A.R.Rather to burden the people with fresh taxes in his budget proposal to be made during the upcoming budget session of the Assembly.” He said Jammu and Kashmir “is a consumer state” and the tax structure has already reached the saturation point. He said there was need for resolving the problem of unemployment and poverty adding that since the picture in the industrial, agricultural, tourism and transport sectors in the state was dismal there was no scope for the Finance Minister to impose fresh taxes.
Referring to way the previous Governments had enhanced taxes and excise on CSD items, Khajuria said that the result of hike in taxes and excise duty was that prices of various items, including electronic and electric appliances in the CSD in Jammu and Kashmir were higher than other CSDs in the country.
Leader of the Panthers Party in the Assembly, Harsh Dev Singh, said it would be better for the Government to improve tax collection and referred to the power sector and said that during the last 10 years power tariff had been increased twice and as such there was no scope for enhancing the tariff rates. He said instead the Government should check distribution and transmission losses which had touched 47 per cent. He and Khajuria said that the Finance Minister should initiate measures for checking leakages in power tariff realization and tax and excise collections. Enhancing tax and excise duties on CSD items was almost a punishment for ex-servicemen and those in service in the Army and paramilitary forces, they said.
However, President Jammu and Kashmir Democratic Party, Ghulam Hassan Mir, said that without additional resource mobilization it was not possible for the Government to tackle the problem of unemployment. He said since more funds were required for boosting development works the Government cannot but administer a mild dose of fresh taxes.
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