Govt mountaineering tax on frequent man, giving concessions to billionaires: Rahul Gandhi

Congress chief Rahul Gandhi on Saturday mentioned whereas the Narendra Modi authorities is mountaineering the charges of the earnings tax and different taxes for the frequent man, it’s giving concessions to billionaires, and claimed that it’s set to introduce one other slab of the GST to burden individuals.

Gandhi mentioned the Congress will proceed to oppose this “injustice” of imposing increased tax charges on issues of every day use and giving concessions to massive billionaires.

“See one other instance of concessions to capitalists and looting frequent individuals. On one hand, the earnings tax is growing consistently compared to the company tax. Alternatively, the Modi authorities is making ready to gather extra money via Gabbar Singh Tax (GST),” he mentioned in a put up in Hindi on X.

“It’s heard that amidst the ever-increasing assortment from the GST, the federal government goes to introduce a brand new tax slab — there’s a plan to extend the GST on issues of every day want.

“Simply assume — the marriage season is occurring, individuals will need to have been saving each penny of their cash and within the meantime, the federal government goes to extend the GST on garments priced above Rs 1,500 from 12 per cent to 18 per cent,” the chief of opposition within the Lok Sabha mentioned.

“It is a grave injustice — taxing the hard-earned cash of poor and middle-class households so as to give tax breaks to billionaires and waive their huge money owed,” he claimed.

“Our combat is in opposition to this injustice. We’ll increase our voice strongly in opposition to the burden of taxes on the frequent individuals and put stress on the federal government to cease this ‘loot’,” the Congress chief added.