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Bar association to oppose professional tax

CUTTACK: The lawyers are once again getting ready to oppose the imposition of professional taxes on them. Ever since the State government reiterated its decision to bring the lawyers under the tax net earlier this week, murmurs against such a decision are being heard in the corridors of the courts.

The High Court Bar Association on Friday made it clear that they would oppose tooth and nail to the proposal of the State government and if needed the lawyers would hit the roads as was done way back in 2003.

“We will not pay the professional tax as proposed by the State government and if necessary we would take legal recourses against it”, announced the High Court Bar Association President Tahali Charan Mohanty on Friday.

But the Naveen Patnaik government is determined to bring the lawyers into the tax purview and the Commercial tax commissioner's office here is learnt to be getting ready to write a letter to the State Bar Council urging it to provide a list of all lawyers enrolled with it.

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