Haryana govt approves amendment in VAT Act

Haryana government today approved an amendment in the VAT Act to provide relief to the registered dealers who suffered losses on account of goods destroyed or lost during the recent Jat agitation.
The state cabinet, under the chairmanship of Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar, approved the amendment in Section 59A of the Haryana Value Added Tax Act, 2003 in order to provide relief to those registered dealers of the state who suffered losses on account of goods destroyed or lost during the Jat agitation in February, an official release said.
With this amendment, the government would be able to bring a suitable amnesty scheme to cover the affected dealers goods of whom were either destroyed or lost in the recent agitation, it said.