Vegetable vendor lady asked to pay rupees 70 lakh as income tax!
Wednesday, 30 January, 2008

Thane, Jan.30 (ANI): A vegetable vendor Parvatibai Salvi of Kalyan area near Mumbai is spending sleepless nights since getting a notice from the income tax department asking her to pay nearly rupees 70 lakh (seven million rupees) as tax for selling a property.

Septuagenarian Parvatibai has been informed through a notice that she sold a property worth rupees two crores (20 million rupees) two years ago. Failure to pay her income tax will invite penal action.  

Parvatibai and her family are at their wit's end, as her personal earnings from selling vegetables rarely ever crossed even a hundred rupees mark!

"I could save only rupees 25. The expenses are very high. I am selling vegetables for last five years. The income tax department has sent a notice. We don't have to deposit the money. They have asked us to send our reply in the matter," said Parvatibai Salvi, vegetable vendor.

The family members of Parvatibai Salvi seemed angry with the income tax department for sending a notice to her.

"My mother has been blamed of possessing rupees one crore and 94 lakh (19.4 million rupees) and the income tax levied on it is around rupees 70 lakh. We don't know anything why they have sent this notice to us. We don't' know how does it come from Pune...We sell vegetables. Look at my mother's condition, what property she owns and decide own your own," said Sadashiv Salvi, Parvatibai Salvi's son.

On the advice of their lawyer, the family members of Parvatibai have demanded the Income Tax Department to send detailed information on the property deal for which they have sent the notice.

"They have asked them (Parvatibai Salvi) to deposit the money. But we have asked them to send us a copy of the papers of the deal and on what basis the IT Department has sent them a notice so that we can know who has sold this place. Our client or somebody else," said Prakash Bhandari, Parvatibai Salvi's lawyer.  (ANI)
--MP