DIMAPUR, MAY 17 (MExN): The Against Corruption and Unabated Taxation (ACAUT) Nagaland today issued a clarification on the “misconception” that the ACAUT Nagaland had “endorsed the reduction of the employee salary Tax which the NSCN (IM) has purportedly reduced from 24% to 12%.”
The ACAUT said that “under no circumstances had it endorsed the reduction nor does it endorse any form of taxation by any NFGs and that it is still resolute and firm in the people’s demand for One Government One Tax.”
The previous press release, it stated, had only welcomed the decision of the collective leadership of NSCN (IM) to scrap the ‘syndicate’ and ‘dealership’ system.
It meanwhile said the ACAUT cannot relax the One Government One Tax stand and affirmed that “it is still the directive of the ACAUT that no businesses/government servants or any individual shall pay any form of tax to any Naga Factional Groups (NFGs) till the people’s aspirations are fulfilled.”
“Any illegal payment of tax to the factions by government employees would still attract cases being registered against the officials. Once again, the ACAUT Nagaland appeals to all the NFGs to work toward One Government One Tax,” the ACAUT added.
