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By Our Special Correspondent
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, MARCH 31. The strike by traders against the proposed introduction of the Value Added Tax (VAT) regime from tomorrow brought all trading activities to a halt in the State for the second day today. The three-day strike will continue tomorrow also.
Talks today
The State Government has called the leaders of the Kerala Vyapari Vyavasayi Ekopana Samithi (KVVES), which represents a majority of the traders in the State, for a discussion tomorrow. The organisation is sticking to its single-point demand that the decision to implement VAT system be withdrawn, while the Government had, even yesterday, reiterated its resolve to shift to the new system from April 1. The KVVES leaders today told the media in Kozhikode that shops and business establishments would reopen on April 2, whatever be the outcome of the talks tomorrow. The organisation's future plan of action would be announced later, they added. Meanwhile, the leaders of the Kerala Vyapari Vyavasayi Samithi met the Chief Minister, Oommen Chandy, in his chamber today and urged him to keep in abeyance the Government's decision to introduce the Value Added Tax regime. The Chief Minister sought to allay their `misapprehensions' about VAT and asked them to check at least for three months how the new system worked. His response, however, did not satisfy them. This organisation had announced a two-day strike from yesterday. Its members will reopen their business establishments tomorrow.
Stir `anti-people'
The All Kerala Exporters' Association, in a statement issued here, termed the traders' strike as an `anti-people action'. The association said ordinary traders were being misled by their organisations that the VAT regime would go against the interests of even small traders. Only the big traders, who profit from large-scale tax evasion under the existing tax regime, can have any grievance against the VAT system, the association said. Why should the traders' organisations be so worked up over the new tax system when the people who actually pay the taxes have no complaint regarding it, the association asked.
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