Source: / Newmai News Network
Dimapur, June 18 2013: The otherwise noisy and chaotic commercial hub of Nagaland looked deserted today as all the roaring business establish-ments came to a grinding halt following the dawn to dusk bandh imposed by Action Committee Against Unabated Taxation (ACAUT) under the aegis of Naga Council, Dimapur.
The bandh began at 6 am and ended at 6 pm.
During the bandh no report of untoward incident has been received from anywhere in Dimapur.
Roads too looked empty save for few commuters on urgent cases.
The ACAUT said today’s bandh was just a pointer of things to come unless concerned organisations and authorities accede to our demands or put mechanisms in place to curb unabated taxation and ultimately price rise, namely, dealership and multiple taxations by underground organisations and price rise which is the prerogative of government to check.
Unable to bear any longer on the rampant imposition of ‘taxes’ on the business community and also on the general public, the denizens of Dimapur, the commercial hub of Nagaland the bandh was called.
Schools, colleges, shops, transport system, offices both government and private obliged to the appeal of the ACAUT to close for the day.
ACAUT wants that there should be only one tax payable to any one underground group.
ACAUT also stated earlier that the ‘back-breaking’ multiple taxes on goods imposed by underground groups should be abolished immediately.
‘Irritants’ such as trade license tax, ID tax, registration tax, calendar donations, Christmas and New Year donations, etc.
shall not be entertained anymore.
The ACAUT also wants that the yearly tax payable to different underground organisations should not be increased arbitrarily under any circumstances and therefore, amount payable shall be the same as in 2012 .
The creation of the new system of ‘dealership’ by underground groups has been strongly condemned.
For instance, it was pointed out that under this latest innovation to milk businesses dry, there is only one poultry dealer/supplier in the whole of Dimapur district and no poultry can be sold in the open market without the consent of this poultry dealer.
It can be noted here that the ACAUT had met the NSCN-IM, the NSCN-Khole/Kitovi and others on the issue.
via NorthEast Calling - NorthEast India | India's No1 online News Magazine http://necalling.com/dimapur-bandh-ends/
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