Madhya Pradesh transport commissioner waived off tax of Jai Ambe company which has been awarded ambulance operation with 800 vehicles evading tax worth crores of rupees as vehicles are registered in Chhattisgarh.
District Vice President AAP Bhopal Pradeep Khandelwal has alleged collusion and said that he would take matters with the Special Police Establishment (SPE) of Lokayukta.
Nothing is impossible, if state agrees to any task as in the case of evasion of tax in vehicle registration of ambulance by Jai Ambe company, he added.
Today a letter was issued from office of Transport Commissioner Madhya Pradesh in which exemption of tax was provided to the company.
In the big fraud in ambulance operation in the form of evasion of tax in vehicles registration was found as according to the Transport Act, 10 percent of the cost of the vehicle is deposited in the form of tax in the registration of ambulance.
In this present case, all the vehicles are registered by the company in Chhattisgarh and Central Tax was evaded of the state government, as per the rules of the transport department, no vehicle coming from other states can be driven in the state border for more than 6 months.
A total of 1292 ambulances are being operated in Madhya Pradesh in which around 800 are new and the rest are old. The state has incurred losses on two fronts one is RTO tax and along with the sale of vehicles to the state, there has also been a lot of loss of GST.
The fleet operator should bring NOC from Chhattisgarh and state share tax be made. There was a loss to the state of around Rs 2 lakh on every vehicle.
