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The Planters Association of Tamil Nadu (PAT) has appealed to the Tamil Nadu authorities to exempt labour quarters allocated to plantation workers astatine the estates from spot tax.
Association president Vinodhan Kandiah said astatine its yearly gathering precocious that based connected the Tamil Nadu Urban Local Bodies Act, 1998, spot taxation levied connected buildings by the section bodies volition spot an incremental revision of 6% annually. The spot taxation is calculated connected the ground of the yearly rental value.
The plantations springiness the labour quarters to the workers with electricity, h2o supply, roads, recreation facilities, and sanitation escaped of outgo arsenic mandated nether the Plantations Labour Act, 1951. There is nary rental worth for these buildings. Hence, “these buildings should beryllium treated otherwise with a debased oregon nominal spot tax.”
The Kerala authorities has exempted the rent-free labour quarters fixed to plantation workers from spot tax. The Tamil Nadu authorities should bring astir a akin exemption, helium said.
He besides urged the authorities to licence the plantations to usage a information of the exempted plantation lands for cultivation of non-plantation crops and to covert a information of the plantation onshore for eco-tourism. Such activities should beryllium added successful the Tamil Nadu Land Reforms Act truthful that the plantations tin instrumentality them up legally connected a commercially sustainable basis, helium said.
