Collect taxes like honeybees without hurting flower: FM

Hyderabad, June 8 (UNI) ''Collect taxes like honeybees, which collects honey without hurting the flower,'' Finance Minister P Chidambaram made this interesting suggestion to the Income Tax Department officials today.

Inaugurating a centrally-airconditioned IT tower, the first of its kind in the country to bring under one roof all IT zonal offices, he asked them to follow the example of honeybees.

Congratulating the IT department here for registering an impressive tax collection of Rs 10,185 crore during the last fiscal as against Rs 6,080 crore collected in 2005-06, he wanted them to build a tax payer-friendly image for the department.

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