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I am Parveen Nagpal who is in Sports & Fitness industry from last 30 years. I was importing sports & fitness equipments from Taiwan & China from last 30 years. Having a face value in Taiwan & China. I am working in this industry from complete honesty. Currently from last 1 year I am not importing. Currently I have opened a factory of making Dumbbells which completely Make In India. Also I have opened a Sports & Fitness Equipments retail showroom to my son. I am doing this business honestly & paying complete revenue to Government. For this I am getting problem in running my business because in this industry 90% are not paying complete revenue to Government. Home users are ready to pay GST because there GST amount is less. But when we come to commercial users they are not ready to pay GST because there GST amount is high. In Commercial Equipments 99% dealers are taking cash payments & doing government revenue theft. Manufacturers have also become importers & doing government revenue theft. My advice is to less GST from 18% to 5% and make import duty high. By doing GST less then the government revenue will be high. In other countries if you check custom duty & GST is same 5%. If you check from your team you will know the facts. As our government have done on Toys , if same policy will be done on sports & Fitness industry, then manufacturing & export will rise from this government will get high revenue. Kindly give some time to me for appointment from your busy schedule to discuss further.
To Sports Minister Mr. Kiren Rijiju,
I am Parveen Nagpal who is in Sports & Fitness industry from last 30 years. I was importing sports & fitness equipments from Taiwan & China from last 30 years. Having a face value in Taiwan & China. I am working in this industry from complete honesty. Currently from last 1 year I am not importing. Currently I have opened a factory of making Dumbbells which completely Make In India. Also I have opened a Sports & Fitness Equipments retail showroom to my son. I am doing this business honestly & paying complete revenue to Government. For this I am getting problem in running my business because in this industry 90% are not paying complete revenue to Government. Home users are ready to pay GST because there GST amount is less. But when we come to commercial users they are not ready to pay GST because there GST amount is high. In Commercial Equipments 99% dealers are taking cash payments & doing government revenue theft. Manufacturers have also become importers & doing government revenue theft. My advice is to less GST from 18% to 5% and make import duty high. By doing GST less then the government revenue will be high. In other countries if you check custom duty & GST is same 5%. If you check from your team you will know the facts. As our government have done on Toys , if same policy will be done on sports & Fitness industry, then manufacturing & export will rise from this government will get high revenue. Kindly give some time to me for appointment from your busy schedule to discuss further.
Thanks
Parveen Nagpal ( Indian )
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