The decision of Goa government to cut down the entry tax on Goan commercial vehicles has brought lots of relief to the commercial vehicle owners from Goa. The entry tax was according to the vehicle owners was eating into their profit margin which was indirectly affecting the hike in the price of the commodities and service. To avoid this Goa government on Tuesday has decided to scrap the entry tax on Goan commercial vehicles which was imposed on June 1 followed by a major public chaos.
According to the information given by PWD Minister, Sudin Dhavalikar the chief minister Laxmikant Parsekar had decided to cut down the entry tax levied on the Goan commercial vehicles and the official notification for the same will follow shortly. According to Sudin the government had a need of funds after the closure of mining business in Goa to maintain the Goa’s infrastructure work such as Roads and small bridges to go on. The entry tax was suppose to help build the corpus of between 400 to 500 crores which would in turn help making all the infrastructure work carried smoothly but following the public rage the government had to withdraw the decision.
If you look at the scenario it’s not the mistake of government at all, the decision of imposing the entry tax is the need of the day looking at the amount of infrastructure development going on in the state. If people start agitating on every tax levied on them by the government then how the development of the state will take place? What do you think about all these? Please do leave your opinion, comments and suggestion on the above issue.
Source: TNN
