Tax evasion due to smuggling of foreign-made cigarettes
Mizoram Chief Minister Lal Thanhawla said that huge tax evasion was suspected due to the smuggling of foreign-made cigarettes to Mizoram and immediate action was required to put an end to it.
Thanhawla was quoted by anofficial statement as saying the smuggling of cigarettes from neighbouring countries are carried out in a “hawala-like racket”, the statement said.
The government, he said, has been contemplating hiking of taxes on cigarettes and other tobacco products.
http://www.easternmirrornagaland.com/tax-evasion-due-to-smuggling-of-foreign-made-cigarettes/
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