Ending a four-decade old practice of the state exchequer shelling out the amount annually for them, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has asked ministers to start paying their own income tax.
The direction follows criticism in the media of a law enacted in 1981 which ensures that Uttar Pradesh chief minister and ministers don't pay any income tax themselves.?Chief Minister Adityanath has ordered to abolish a provision of Uttar Pradesh Ministers' Salaries, Allowances and Miscellaneous Act, 1981, according to which the Income-Tax of ministers was being paid by the state treasury.
Their share is shelled out by the state government under the Uttar Pradesh Ministers' Salaries, Allowances and Miscellaneous Act, 1981.
Earlier in the day, after a newspaper report made the revelation, several politicians said they were not even aware of the provision in the UP Act.
(With inputs from agencies)