PAN card holders (income-tax payers) may be in for a shock if this proposal manages to pass the political muster.
Consumers of cooking gas, liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), may have to fork out more. The government plans to withdraw subsidies for taxpayers, which will hike cooking gas prices to almost Rs 480 a cylinder.
The Cabinet is expected to discuss shortly a proposal to make all taxpayers holding PAN cards pay an extra Rs 180 per cylinder