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By Our Staff Reporter
NEW DELHI, FEB. 18. Expressing concern at the alleged "anti-trade" policies of the Delhi Government, All India Tax Advocates Forum has sought extension of the assessment deadline for the 2003-2004 fiscal by at least three months on the ground that though the Government has fixed March 31, 2005 as the final date for last year's tax assessment, the Sales Tax officials were forcing the traders to comply with the assessment directive by February-end. The Forum president, M.K. Gandhi, said while the arbitrary directions of the Government and its officials were already working at cross-purposes, they had also led to considerable confusion and large number of traders can be seen queued up outside the ST Department counters. Manned by a few officials and their assistants, the ST Department is understood to have targeted at least 80,000 traders out of a total of around 1.75 lakh ST-paying businessmen for summary collections in February itself. Though this appears to be humanly impossible, Mr Gandhi charged, the Department was keeping its offices open even on Sundays to meet the deadline. The AITAF president, who is a leading tax professional, explained that in almost all the States and Union Territories, this kind of assessment is staggered between two and four years as against Delhi where the deadline has been shrunk to just a few months. Further, he charged, that the arbitrary directions of the local Government have come at a time when the traders are grappling with the prospect of VAT-switch over by April 1, this year. "Having lost their battle against the hasty introduction of the VAT regime that is set to destroy the distributive character of the metropolis, the Government is apparently keen to compound the confusion with its short-sighted assessment agenda," Mr. Gandhi alleged. Calling upon the Government to extend the assessment deadline by at least June-end, Mr. Gandhi threatened direct action in unison with the suffering trading community to force the necessary change.
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