BENGALURU: After causing it much of a headache in Goods and Service Tax (GST) regime, is Bharatiya Janata Party-led central government turning its back on the private lottery players? The income tax (I-T) department's raid on the king of private lottery players in India, Santiago Martin, certainly suggests so. Incidentally, between the two major raids, the tax officials conducted a series of smaller raids and picked up people close to Martin for questioning. Private players like Martin have been badly hit by the introduction of GST, with the lottery taxes going up to even the highest rate of 28% in certain states. "There have been rumours that he (Martin) has been lobbying in the GST council to make it a uniform tax.

Source: Mint May 05, 2019 15:45 UTC