Tax collection should be smooth: President
6 Sept 2017 10:46 PM IST
New Delhi: Tax collection should be a smooth process and there should be minimum discomfort to the tax- payer, President Ram Nath Kovind said here on Wednesday.
He said the collection of revenue is critical to the task of nation building.
Citing Chanakya, Kovind said a government should collect taxes like a honeybee, which collects just the right amount of nectar from flowers so that both can survive.
Kovind was addressing probationers of the 67th (2015) batch of the Indian Revenue Service (Customs and Central Excise) who called on him at the Rashtrapati Bhavan on Wednesday. He said that in a sense the young officers would drive the Goods and Services Tax, which he termed as the biggest economic reform since Independence.
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