# Kerala: Tax official puts onus on wholesale group for chicken price | Kerala: Tax official puts onus on wholesale group for chicken price

> Kerala's finance minister named a major wholesale group as controlling the state's chicken trade, and a former tax official backed a fixed price of Rs 87 per kg. Wholesalers say that price would cause losses, and the GST has removed a 14.5% luxury tax on chicken.

- Date: 2017-07-09 · published 2017-07-09T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: policy · region India · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/70124-kerala-tax-official-puts-onus-on-wholesale-group-for-chicken-price-kerala-tax
- Commodities: [Chicken](https://feedsoft.ai/c/CHICKEN.md)

## Why it matters

The dispute concerns local price-setting and tax rules rather than supply, so it has little effect on broader poultry or feed prices.

## Read by commodity

- CHICKEN: neutral

## Sources

- deccanchronicle.com: https://www.deccanchronicle.com/nation/in-other-news/100717/kerala-tax-official-puts-onus-on-wholesale-group-for-chicken-price.html

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