INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Hyderabad: At a time when Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S
Jagan Mohan Reddy is struggling hard to mobilise every cent possible to satisfy his government's commitments to the poor, private efforts
are on to dole out excessive monetary benefits worth Rs 150 crore to errant rice millers.Some rice millers have been preventing payment of
tax defaults over the last few years after they were caught manipulating treatments
Inquiries by Deccan Chronicle revealed that the errant rice millers from the East and the West Godavari districts had actually struck a deal
with a ruling celebration leader who dominates these two districts
Fearing that the CM may come to know of his participation, he is said to be operating through a senior tax authorities
Paradoxically, the note circulated by Peeyush Kumar, the Chief Commissioner of State Tax, to Rajat Bhargav, the Unique Chief Secretary,
Income, is self-explanatory an area of rice millers dedicated scams, did not avail of the tax waiver scheme earlier by following the
recommended standards and declined to pay defaults during an unique drive.The Chief Commissioner likewise indicated that the government
would lose greatly if the rice millers had their method
His department had been going soft on the rice millers rather of clamping down on them and collecting financial obligations, using the
He discussed in the letter that the federal government was the proficient authority to waive off arrears from the rice millers
In the pre-Goods and Services Tax regime, a 2 per cent tax was levied on the inter-state rice and damaged rice sales if they were
transported in addition to C kind and five percent tax in the lack of C form.Several rice millers carried out sale deals without the C type
Thanks to their lobbying, the previous Telugu Desam federal government waived the balance three percent tax for 2014 and 2015 fiscal years
There was, however, a strict condition that those rice millers who would like to avail the waiver should have mandatorily paid the 2 percent
tax and completed tax assessment for the two fiscals
While some rice millers satisfied the conditions and availed waiver, numerous neglected and continued to devote the very same scams till
2017 till the GST originated, sources in the tax department informed Deccan Chronicle
While the waiver for 2014 and 2015 would cost the government Rs 60 crore, another Rs 90 crore would be lost if the tax evasion for the
staying years was also considered, they included.
