Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, June 21: Chamber of Traders Federation (CTF) unequivocally welcomed and supported the introduction of GST on all India level including J&K State, irrespective of the questionable stand taken by Kashmir Centric Parties in the garb of fiscal autonomy and special status.
Talking to media persons here the president of the CTF, Neeraj Anand said the trading community of Jammu takes pride in connecting itself with the mainstream national revolution of streamlining fiscal mass by plethora of Taxes. Anand said smooth switch over has run into a road-block and uncertainty on the part of State Government to implement it from the strict scheduled date has put the whole business community in utter confusion. These was no valid explanation from the Government dragging its feet at the eleventh hour when remained in forefront in eulogizing the benefits of GST through all these years.
The Federation leader said even BJP acting subordinate to the larger faction and dubbed as traders friendly has not come upto the expectations and take a tough stand in the J&K Assembly, thus leaving the business community into lurch. He added that nobody in the Government and political parties have bothered to explain those special levies that they want to add, delete or reduce in the State purported GST draft, nothing is about their rates, flexibility in return filing or duration.
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He said the Government should have consulted the real representatives of the business community instead of waiting for approval from a few disgruntled elements. He said if a clear cut decision is not taken in a day or two, the traders would have no other option than to shut their shops. Earliest efforts should be made for a break through to avoid any such eventuality.
CTF also wished to review its demand from the Government of providing free and full support by way of creating required infrastructure and other facilities to small and medium traders for completing tedious accounting formalities.
Those present in the press conference included Chander Gulati, Yash Paul Gupta, Parveen Gupta, Kailash Nath Nagar, Dinesh Gupta, Tushar Mahajan, Prag Abrol, Yash Paul Abrol and Shiv Kumar Gupta.
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