Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today regretted that the food processing sector was subject to “multiple levies” and said there is an urgent need to rationalise tax structure to replicate the success of the IT industry globally.

“Though primary agricultural commodities are mostly exempted from taxes, processed foods are subjected to multiple levies. There is an urgent [...]

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