Summary:
Employees drawing salaries and wages may have to pay professional tax between Rs 80 and Rs 200 per month. Sources said the draft paper would be placed before the MC House in its next meeting. In the draft paper, the MC stated that the tax was the need of the hour. Sources said the paper proposed the tax according to the income of professionals. Sources said professional tax was one of the recommendations of the third finance commission of Chandigarh but the MC had been ignoring its imposition..