Ex-servicemen seek exemption from property tax
Tuesday, 17/12/2013
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2013/20131217/punjab.htm#14
Chandigarh : Ex-servicemen have urged the state government to exempt serving and retired Army personnel from paying property tax, keeping in view their tough service conditions and as a token of recognition of their services.
Addressing mediapersons here today, All India Defence Brotherhood president Brig Harwant Singh (retd) said many states, including Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Rajasthan, have already exempted service personnel from paying property tax. He said even the Chandigarh administration was considering to do the the same.
He said the state government had always treated its soldiers well and that it might be due to an oversight that it had not yet exempted its soldiers from paying the recently imposed property tax.
The president of All India Defence Brotherhood's state unit, Brig KS Kahlon (retd), said a delegation of ex-servicemen would meet the Chief Minister in this regard.
He said there were about five lakh ex-servicemen and about one lakh serving soldiers in the state.
