Congress is trying to spread the taxation base in the country reportedly to increase government’s earning so ambitious projects of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government particularly recently launched Food Security Bill could be funded.
Rs I was traveling from one state to other state meeting the officials of the Income Tax Department as well as that Central Customs, Excise and Service Taxes so that we could spread the tax base in the country", revealed union minister of state for Finance JD Seelaum. He said that so far out only about 3.5 percent of population is giving taxes which is very less than expected by the Government so they are trying to gear-up the officers of the Departments concerned so they should make people more aware of filing their tax returns as well Government is also making all out efforts to make it more simple for everyone to do so.
Seelum was talking to the media persons here at Party’s state headquarter on Saturday afternoon. He was on visit to lucknow to hold meeting with the IT Departments, as well other Departments responsible for collecting taxes. “The mission of Central government is just to spread the tax base so that burden should not be put on just few persons but everyone should pay little for welfare of the country", he clarified while denying that UPA government is planning to further tax the people who were already paying heavy sum in way of various taxes, like Income Tax, Service T Tax, Value Added Tax, luxury Tax, Education Cess etc.
When asked the deteriorating economy particularly fall in rupee in comparison to currency of many neighbouring countries, Seelam said that it wrong to compare India with other countries as the Government here is meeting several social obligations in the field of agriculture, health, education etc. He said that still very little impact of world wide recession has been faced by the public here just due to several measures already taken by the Central Government. He claimed that the food inflation had put worst effect on the country but now since the country witnessed a good monsoon so situation will change soon.
He also said that a Bill on introducing Goods and Service Tax (GST) will be introduced in the next session of Parliament.