Patna,(BiharTimes): Even as shopkeepers of Exhibition Road, Station Road, New Dak Bungalow Road, Raja Market etc downed their shutters for the third consecutive day on Sunday the Janata Dal (United) alleged that the tax collection was less in non-corporate sector during Sushil Kumar Modi’s tenure as deputy chief minister-cum-finance minister.

Countering the allegation of Modi that commercial taxes collection has been hit after the exit of BJP ministers from the council of ministers JD(U) leaders Ram Kishore Singh and Ranbir Nandan charged that state had achieved less collection in non-corporate sector during tenure of the BJP leader as finance minister. They asked Modi to explain how much revenue was collected from corporate and non-corporate sectors during his period.

Accusing the BJP of backing the shopkeepers who attacked the sales tax officers on Wednesday they claimed there is more scope of tax collection from non-corporate sector.
They asked how much tax the state received on commodities like granite, marble, timber and ready-made clothes. It appears that the state had been deprived of a large amount of revenue from non-corporate sector during Modi's regime. He is praising himself only for tax collection from corporate sector, they said.