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Rs 2,490-cr tax exemptions given to 10 main political parties in last 5 years

New Delhi, Dec 3: Tax-exempted income of the 10 main political parties in the last five years touched a whopping Rs 2,490 crore with Congress and BJP accounting for around 80 per cent of the

PTI Published : Dec 02, 2012 19:56 IST, Updated : Dec 03, 2012 8:29 IST


JD(S) had an earning of Rs 7.16 crore in 2009-10 and 2010-11 while Ram Vilas Paswan's LJP had a tax-exempted earning of Rs 2.55 crore in four years from fiscal 2007 to fiscal 2011.

Lalu Prasad's RJD earned Rs 2.85 crore in three years from fiscal 2008 to fiscal 2011.

The information came through a petition filed by Hisar- based RTI activist Ramesh Verma before the IT department.




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