Employees of the State Goods and Services Tax  (SGST) Department are up in arms against the state government for delaying the restructuring of the department, as they say this is hampering revenue collection for at least six years. Employee associations have sent out a call, asking their members to protest from Monday if the government doesn’t recede ground.

As of now, SGST amounts for 70 per cent of the state’s total yearly revenue collection. The same department was earlier known as the Sales Tax Department before being renamed to Value Added Tax (VAT) department. Even back then, it collected the highest share for the state’s coffers. Ever since the GST regime was introduced in 2017, the State and Centre have been working together, sharing the revenue equally.