Not paying tax to the g🍨overnment is denying benefits to the poor, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said on Fr🌟iday, attacking the Congress.
Sarma was reacting to the Congress stating that it has received fresh notices from the I-T Department, asking it to pay Rs 1,823.0𝔉8 crore.
Not paying tax to the g🍨overnment is denying benefits to the poor, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said on Fr🌟iday, attacking the Congress.
Sarma was 🌼reacting to the Congress stating that it has received fresh notices from the I-T Department, asking it to pay Rs 1,823.08 🌼crore.
"If the Congress is not paying the tax then this means that they are against welfare activiti𒅌es. They are against the poor, against the downtr🦹odden," he said.
"The money collected as tax goes to the hospitals, schools and colleges꧙, and so the government needs tax. Tax is not terror and the two are two different words," he added.
"Tax money is a benevolent thing because this goes for public welfare. The notice tꦇo Congress is, therefore, not taxꩲ terrorism but it is tax compliance," Sarma said.
Referring to the Congress demonstrations against 🐼tax notices, he said the party stages protests every day.
"I suggestಌ that they go and campaign for elections instead of protesting every day," he added.