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Delhi traders upset

NEW DELHI: Traders in the Capital on Tuesday sought withdrawal of a tax department advertisement exhorting businessmen not to evade paying tax, saying it is biased against a particular caste.

`Gupta Uncle'

The advertisement, in which a child asks his father why he along with `Gupta Uncle' is evading service tax, was derogatory and highly objectionable, Confederation of All India Traders Secretary General Praveen Khandelwal said in a statement here.

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CAIT has written to Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram urging him to withdraw the advertisement.

The Government should ensure that in future no community was singled out in this manner, it added. -UNI

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