Revenue jackpot for Telangana!

Hyderabad: Telangana government is sitting on a cash chest of at least Rs 20,000 crores in the form of sales tax dues that have been tied up in legal tangles for the past 15 years, revealed sales tax officials. The officials said state, central and private organisations like oil marketing companies, South Central Railways and Ballarpur Industries have not been paying their sales and other state taxes to the government for the past 15 years due to due to objections in the calculated amounts. With the result they have gone to the courts in this regard, officials revealed. Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao is keen to settle the taxation cases at the earliest so as to rake in a jackpot amount to the treasury. In this connection the chief minister has given instructions to the officials to take up appropriate measures to resolve the pending cases and retrieve at least a part of the pending dues.