TAX EVASION IN MAHE
Mahe is one of the four regions of Union Territory of Puducherry(Pondicherry) situated in kerala state.The total land area of Mahe is 9 sq.km(nine sq km only) with a population of about 7500 families consisting of 12504 male voters.However this tiny place is a den of liquor smuggling and tax evasion.Mahe has 65 liquor shops/bars ie one liquor shop for every 200 male adults.Large quantity of liquor is transported to Mahe to be smuggled to Kerala state.Like wise there are 19 petrol pumps in Mahe selling lakhs of liters of petrol or diesel every day.But there is no proper collection of tax by the Puducherry Govt.As the local MLA is involved in the business it is not safe for any one in Mahe to collect the details of tax evasion and corruption.Hence the following information may be collected from the Govt of Puducherry.
Information regarding tax collected from Mahe for the period from 1-4-2011 to 30-9-2011 as per details given below
1)sale of liquor
2)sale of petrol and diesel
3)sale of other items
4)Total tax collected
The following information may be collected from the Govt of Kerala
1)Total quantity of liquor(IMFL) transported to Mahe through the Kerala check posts from1-4-2011to 30-9-2011.
2)Total quantity of spirit or alcohol transported to Mahe through kerala check posts from1-4-2011 till date.
Both the RTIs can be filed. Both the application should be addressed to the state excise department i suppose. Requesting the applicant to go through this link which gives a list of all PIOs and find out which is the right PIO and to get back to us. Awaiting reply http://www.pon.nic.in/rti/ar1909.pdf
The excise departments do not collect all taxes.Hence applications may
be addressed to the State Information Officers who has access to all departments.
The term state information officer may be corrected as State Public information Officer.As suggested it is better to address applications to the PIOs of concerned departments.Anybody seeking information on liquor smuggling is at a risk.So please allow one or two days to redraft the queries.
What’s the meaning of State information officers – that’s very vague. The query should be addressed to APIO and PIO given in this link: http://www.pon.nic.in/rti/3_Excise/file8.pdf
and the PIO mentioned in this link of the Kerala state govt under `Taxes dept’. pl delete query 4 and 5 while filing the RTI as it pertains to another subject altogether.