West Bengal: One-time tax settlement boost for state exchequer

The West Bengal government has a windfall just ahead of the general election which later can be spent for the social schemes of the chief minister. The  state finance department has mobilised Rs 754 crore from one-time settlement scheme for entry tax, VAT, central sales tax and West Bengal sales tax on March 31, 2019, making it one of the most successful settlement schemes in the post-GST reg…