Telangana wine dealers appeal to extend time for tax payment

The Telangana wine dealers association has made a request to the Prohibition and Excise Commissioner Somesh Kumar to enhance the time for paying taxes.

The association submitted a memorandum to the commissioner asking to mull over seven times turnover system and collect the tax only after the shops earned seven times their turnover. They also assured to pay the one month's proportionate tax for October month.

On Thursday, the excise department extended the licences of all the liquor shops by one month i.e, till October and asked the shopkeepers to pay tax for October month.