State govts should stop levying multiple taxes on packaged food: PHD Chamber
Updated: Mar 27, 2014 12:50:38pm
New Delhi, Mar 27 (KNN) The state governments should stop levying multiple taxes on packaged food products including poultry products, especially when the unpacked food products are allowed to be sold off without any taxes, which is barring the food processing industry from growing, PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry has said.
“The state governments to stop levying packaged food products with multiple taxes which are imposed on hygiene in poultry sector to enable India realize the real potential of food processing industry including that of poultry products,” Co–Chairman, Agri Business Committee of the PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Vijay Sardana said.
Addressing a Roundtable on Poultry Marketing under aegis of the PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry here on Tuesday, Sardana said that nowhere in the world hygiene tax was imposed on packaged food products barring India. “This is leading to health and food safety issues and preventing investments in India’s infrastructure sector.”
“In case, if it wanted its food processing industry to grow to its real potential, such illogical measures need to be shunned, especially when the unpacked food products are allowed to be sold off without any taxes he cautioned pointing out that food safety cannot be compromised,” the chamber said in a press release.
Different states levy packaged food products with different slabs of tax hygiene ranging from 10 per cent to over 25 per cent without consulting the industry which not only discourage the entrepreneurs but also disconnect them with the consumers in the entire value chain of the industry, pointed out Sardana.
He prescribed a multi-pronged strategy to market poultry products which include a suitable connect between farmers, middle men and retailer so that each stake holder’s share of profit is protected in an equitable manner. Co-operative market approach was also recommended by him to sell off meat and poultry products. (KNN/SD)
“The state governments to stop levying packaged food products with multiple taxes which are imposed on hygiene in poultry sector to enable India realize the real potential of food processing industry including that of poultry products,” Co–Chairman, Agri Business Committee of the PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Vijay Sardana said.
Addressing a Roundtable on Poultry Marketing under aegis of the PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry here on Tuesday, Sardana said that nowhere in the world hygiene tax was imposed on packaged food products barring India. “This is leading to health and food safety issues and preventing investments in India’s infrastructure sector.”
“In case, if it wanted its food processing industry to grow to its real potential, such illogical measures need to be shunned, especially when the unpacked food products are allowed to be sold off without any taxes he cautioned pointing out that food safety cannot be compromised,” the chamber said in a press release.
Different states levy packaged food products with different slabs of tax hygiene ranging from 10 per cent to over 25 per cent without consulting the industry which not only discourage the entrepreneurs but also disconnect them with the consumers in the entire value chain of the industry, pointed out Sardana.
He prescribed a multi-pronged strategy to market poultry products which include a suitable connect between farmers, middle men and retailer so that each stake holder’s share of profit is protected in an equitable manner. Co-operative market approach was also recommended by him to sell off meat and poultry products. (KNN/SD)
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