NMDA resolves on ‘tax’

Dimapur, April 14 (MExN): The Nagaland Medicine Dealers Association (NMDA) has resolved that it will not collect “any kind of taxes from any of its members for any N.P.Gs or other Organization.” Further, if “any kind of threat or intimidation” is perpetuated to any member of the Association, the NMDA resolved to take “all necessary action or protest including closure of all the Medicine shops indefinitely.” This was stated in a press release from the NMDA President and General Secretary. The decisions were made following an emergency meeting held on April 5 last. It alleged that NMDA office bearers were already receiving threat calls and letters in the name of “certain organisation” for payment of annual taxes. While requesting Naga Political Groups to “seriously deliberate and exempt” the medicine business from “any kind of taxes,” the NMDA noted that the particular business is “mostly for the cost of social service with limited income and high risk of expiry/damage/breakages etc, with fixed price margin.” According to them, some of the members in this business fraternity can “hardly make their living through this respectable yet risky business.”