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MUMBAI:
The Maharashtra state government is considering auctioning
the rights to collect entertainment duty to private agencies.
According
to this new procedure, private collection agencies would collect
duty from subscribers, pay the state government an agreed-upon
amount and keep a portion of the collection, reports The Indian
Express.
Estimates
say that by the end of this financial year, entertainment
duty could exceed Rs 1 billion.
Revenue
department officials have been quoted in the report as saying
that although the proposal for collection of Entertainment
Duty on Cable Television by private agencies was formulated
in 2003, the initiative received poor response.
Currently,
penalties are meted out to errant cable operators according
to the Mumbai Entertainment Duty Act, 1923.
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