DIMAPUR, OCTOBER 15 (MExN): The Nagaland Taxation Service Association (NTSA) has resolved to call for a one day mass casual leave on October 17 in compliance with the directive issued by the All India Confederation of Commercial Tax Associations (AICCTA). A press note from the NTSA informed that this decision was taken during an emergency executive meeting on October 13.
It may be noted that the AICCTA had called for the mass casual leave in protest against the GST Council’s decision to keep the administration of Service Tax Assesses exclusively with the central authorities and “irrational distribution” of power and functions between the central GST officers and state GST officers. On October 17, a protest demonstration is also set to be held at Jantar Mantar, New Delhi under the aegis of the AICCTA, where two representatives from the NTSA will be participating. The NTSA, in its press note, appealed to the state’s representatives to the GST council meeting to project and impress upon the GST council the “legitimate demand of the state’s Commercial Tax official in the interest of the state’s fiscal autonomy with the advent of the GST regime.”
