The Maharashtra State Industrial Development Corporation (MIDC) has issued notices to industries in MIDC to pay GST for six years along with interest and penalty for as many as 80 services.
The industry associations of the state have taken a decision not to pay any fee except water bill in an online meeting on Monday and these associations have shown their readiness to go to court.
50 to 60 office bearers of Industries Association were present in the meeting. Every entrepreneur will give a letter to the executive engineer of MIDC stating that the water bill should be separated from the bill charged by MIDC and we will pay the same bill. Butibori Manufacturing Industries Association President Nitin Lonkar said that the GST bill with fines is in billions.
Every entrepreneur in the state has been sent a GST bill of 80 services for the last six years in the month of May with a penalty ranging from 1 lakh to 15 lakhs. There are 289 MIDCs in the state. There are millions of companies in it. Overall, the amount of GST and penalty is in billions.
Nitin Lonkar said that, “the decision was a conspiracy of MIDC to end the industry in the state. All the industrial associations are going to meet the Chief Minister, Deputy Chief Minister, Industry Minister, CEO of MIDC immediately to resolve the GST bill. Lonkar explained that the organizations are ready to appeal to the court if they do not get a positive response.