, the profits from Michael Jackson’s first and only concert in India ran to more than $1 million, as written in Suketu Mehta’s award winning book,The Shiv Sena party, which at the time was governing the Maharashtra state where Mumbai is located, had “waived entertainment tax on the show on the grounds that it was meant for a ‘philanthropic and charitable’ purpose,” theNot everyone was happy.
Flash forward to 2021, and decades after the original concert in 1996, the current government in Maharashtra, “now run by Shiv Sena in coalition with the Congress party,” has ruled in favour of the organisers, reinstating the waiver.reports that State minister Subhash Desai said on Tuesday evening that the cabinet had passed a resolution to "waive 3.3 million rupees [about $45,000] of entertainment tax for Michael Jackson's 1996 concert".
"We would want the money to be deposited with the government since the charity [the youth employment project called Shiv Udyog Sena ] no longer exists," Shirish Deshpande, chairman of Mumbai Grahak Panchayat, says.
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