Amarinder opposes taxes on colonisers
Thursday, 06/11/2014
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Patiala : Congress Deputy Leader in the Lok Sabha Capt Amarinder Singh on Wednesday strongly opposed the retrospective and punitive taxes on the colonisers and plot holders in unapproved colonies in Punjab.
“Don’t punish the common man with exorbitant and punitive taxes to cover up your own fiscal profligacy and financial failures,” he told Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal and his Deputy Chief Minister son Sukhbir Badal in a statement issued here on Wednesday.
He said that it was absolutely arbitrary and unjustified on part of the state government to resort to such punitive taxation, particularly on the residential plot holders who were living there for over two decades now. Besides, in case of delay of over three months, people were being slapped 60 per cent penalty, which he said, was not just punitive, but ruthless taxation. Following a meeting with a delegation of the affected people, Amarinder assured that once the Congress government is formed in the state, he will ensure that no such punitive taxes are imposed on people.
“You can’t penalise the people of the state for your own financial crises,” he asserted while referring to the financial mess the state was in and for which the government was trying to impose taxes on every section of the population.
The former chief minister disclosed that he was told that the government was charging Rs 5 lakh per acre from the colonisers and Rs 25,000 to Rs 90,000 per plot holder even if they had constructed residential houses 20 years ago.
