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Mamata Banerjee writes to PM Modi on payment of GST dues to state govts
Updated On: 02 September, 2020 09:25 PM IST | Mumbai | IANS
Banerjee said that the Union Finance Minister had said in March this year that the Centre is duty bound to give compensations to the states and it was their solemn commitment
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West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee. File pic/PTI
Expressing her deep anguish, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi asking the Centre to pay the GST dues to the state governments.
"I am deeply anguished by the GST imbroglio which tantamounts to a betrayal of trust and moral responsibility of the Government of India towards the states, violating the very premise of federalism... This is a travesty and an abrogation of the fundamental basis on which the states gave up 70 per cent of their taxing powers, including the entire VAT regime, to usher in the GST regime," Banerjee wrote in the letter to Modi.
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