Mumbai: Amid ongoing stand-off between traders and state government over proposed imposition of Local Body Tax (LBT), Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray on Sunday asked traders to not hold common people to ransom and open their shops.
In a press statement issued in Mumbai, Raj said that LBT, to be imposed in Mumbai and some municipal corporations in the state from October 1, either be scrapped or amended.
"Henceforth, traders should not hold people to ransom by closing their shops. They should resolve the issue by negotiating with the government", he said.
Raj said that at some places in the state shopkeepers have opened their shops while at some places they are still closed. "These (closed shops) should be opened or else we will open those shops", he warned....
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11:47 PM, May 12, 2013
Mumbai: Perturbed by strident opposition to imposition of Local Body Tax (LBT) in Mumbai and some municipal corporations from October 1, Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan on Sunday asked Congress leaders to "clear misconceptions" pertaining to the levy. "The chief minister asked state Congress leaders, including MPCC chief Manikrao Thakre and Mumbai Congress president Janardhan Chandurkar, to clear misconceptions of traders, merchants and opposition parties about LBT," Chavan was quoted...
11:36 PM, May 12, 2013
Mumbai: Wholesalers in the city would continue to observe bandh against the local body tax (LBT) even as associations representing retailers called off their strike on Saturday. "Despite a section of the retailers calling off the strike, wholesalers' strike against LBT will continue," Federation of Associations of Maharashtra President Mohan Gurnani said in a statement in Mumbai. The Federation of Retail Traders Welfare Association, led by Viren Shah, had announced...
11:24 PM, May 12, 2013
More than five lakh wholesalers in Maharashtra have called for an indefinite strike starting from Monday. The strike comes in proetst against the Local Body Tax. The retailers claim that Maharashtra is the only state that has a tax in addition to VAT. ...
02:47 PM, May 06, 2013
Mumbai: Shiv Sena on Sunday said that the party has not called any bandh in Maharashtra on Monday in lieu of Bal Thackeray's demise. Uddhav Thackeray's personal secretary Milind Narvekar said that Shiv Sena has not called a bandh either in Maharashtra or in Mumbai on Monday. However, Federation of Associations of Maharashtra (FAM) called upon its constituents and the trading community to observe a bandh in Maharashtra on Monday...
08:25 PM, Nov 18, 2012
Traders and wholesalers shut shops across the state. ...
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