Business Association of Nagas (BAN) has expressed serious concern over taxation demand on a renowned Naga businessman and an entrepreneur recently.
In a press note, BAN media cell sated that the group, besides demanding a huge amount as yearly tax, had also downed the shutters of the business establishment. BAN condemned such demands and acts.
While appreciating that some NNPGs had resolved to exempt Naga entrepreneurs from taxation, BAN said such groups have understood that imposing tax on Naga brothers and sisters would be counterproductive and have negative impact on the upcoming Naga entrepreneurs.
Urging these groups to uphold their resolution, BAN at the same time appealed to the NNPGs who have not exempted Naga entrepreneurs to come into the fold and earn the goodwill of the Naga people. It also reaffirmed the public resolution of ‘One Government, one Tax’.
Asserting that multiple taxation was a constant harassment to the business community, which leads to price rise in the market, BAN appealed to the NNPGs to be considerate to Naga entrepreneurs and businessmen and exempt them from any form of taxation.
BAN said most Naga entrepreneurs run small enterprises and struggle to make a little profit. “It is not fair on the part of our NNPGs to take away this little profit from them,” it added.
BAN said that the organization, exclusively for ‘Nagas by blood’ members, had been advocating the scope of entrepreneurship to make Nagaland state a self-reliant and a developed state and not only a salaried economy.
Meanwhile, BAN has requested the Government of India to expedite the peace process for early solution to the vexed Naga problem.