HYDERABAD: Following the trade bandh observed on July 20 against the state government imposing four per cent VAT on textiles, the Andhra Pradesh Federation of Textile Associations (APFTA) organized a Joint Action Committee meeting at the Secunderabad Cloth Merchants Association to decide on further course of action. Representatives from different districts participated and articulated their opinion.Members of the federation will continue to persuade the MPs, MLAs and MLCs of their respective areas to support the withdrawal of VAT. Also, the need to release bales of cloth detained at check posts was discussed. A steering committee to work under the textile federation to oversee the developments will be formed. In the meeting, several members opined that drastic measures such as a sit-in protests and ‘Chalo Assembly’ must be resorted to if their demands are not met with. The APFTA members pointed out that the Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra governments have withdrawn VAT on textiles to protect the business interest of the traders.The chief minister will meet the representatives of the association to discuss the G.O Ms 932 through which the tax was implemented. Scrap VAT on Sugar, Garments: FOUCASFederation of Urban Citizens Associations (FOUCAS) on Sunday demanded that state government should withdraw the four per cent VAT on sugar and garments. In a press release, FOUCAS president T Sagar and secretary P V Srinivas demanded that the VAT on sugar and garments would hit the poor badly. They also demanded that the government should drop the proposal to collect tax as per square yard rate for farm lands where 25 per cent land has been utilised for houses.
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