Following reports that electoral reverses for the BJP were putting pressure on Indian Finance minister Yashwant Sinha to reverse tax measures affecting the middle classes, he was said yesterday to be preparing a case to defend his budget.
"The data clearly shows that people who voted against the BJP are not tax-payers who are affected by the budget," said an official in the Delhi income-tax department, "Even those who fall in the taxable bracket in the lowest band of less than Rs 60,000, account for a meagre segment of the total number of voters in wards where the polling percentage was high. The only contributing factor may be attributed to the hike in LPG prices, which was anyway slashed by half, and the marginal increase in kerosene prices," he said.
The tax department is scambling to collect data from all the wards involved in the New Delhi municipal elections which caused the trouble, and will submit it to the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) immediately for analysis. The data will have details under various headings like number of car owners, scooter owners, computer owners, kerosene oil users, LPG users, farmers and senior citizens based on income band.
"Through this data we will prove that this budget touched the lives of people staying in the posh colonies and they never went out to vote against the BJP. Heavy polling was witnessed in rural areas where the budget was hardly the issue," said the official. "The percentage of voter turn-out in polls was far higher in areas where low income populace was clustered. We are also collecting data from the Delhi government about the percentage of voting in each ward and then comparing it with our own data," said the source.
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