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Thursday, Jan 13, 2005

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Hike in profession tax for NGOs

By Our Special Correspondent

HYDERABAD, JAN. 12. Non-gazetted officers of the Government will have to pay higher profession tax following the Government's decision to withdraw an order keeping in abeyance the enhanced rate.

The profession tax was increased for all categories of employees with effect from August 1, 1996, by an order that year but it was kept in abeyance for the NGOs by another order at that time. The latter order was withdrawn yesterday following a review of the issue at which it was felt that the local bodies were losing sizeable revenues due to non-implementation of the increase for the NGOs.

A Government spokesman said the enhanced rates in case of these employees would be collected from January 1, 2005. The arrears for the period from March 1997 to December 2004 would be recovered from the benefits likely out of the Pay Revision Commission recommendations.

Non-gazetted officers have protested against the Government decision applying the enhanced profession tax to them also.

A delegation of the Joint Action Committee of Employees, Teachers and Workers, led by its chairman, B. V. Subba Reddy, and others, met the Finance Minister, K. Rosaiah, at the Secretariat today, demanding withdrawal of the order by which the NGOs were brought under the increased tax.

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