Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi general secretary D. Ravikumar, on Sunday criticised the Union government for not including Tamil Nadu Finance Minister Palanivel Thiaga Rajan in Group Of Ministers (GoM) formed to examine the issue of GST exemption and concessions to Covid relief material. Also Read Tamil Nadu for zero GST on vaccines, drugs“The strong issues that he has raised would have embarrassed the Union government. For almost 12 pages, he underlined the issues with State-Union government relations, how States are being discriminated in allocation of tax revenue and tax injustice. In the last few pages, he has raised the issue of temporary GST exemption for Covid relief materials such as Vaccines, Oximeters etc," he said. Mr. Ravikumar said that he has not been included as he had underlined the injustice of how tax revenues due to States have not been given since before Independence.

Source: The Hindu May 30, 2021 07:52 UTC