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The movement against the illegal and multiple taxation started a decade back when in 2010, the Nagaland Government issued a notification for setting up a high power committee, As a result on 05 August 2014, the High Powered Committee was set up to inquire into the illegal and multiple taxations in the State headed by justice(retd) H.K. Sema retired Supreme Court Judge as chairman, K.K. Sema IAS(Retd), Joel Nillo Kath as members and additional secretary justice & law as member-secretary. The committee submitted a report on 10 June 2015 to the Chief Minister however this report are yet to be released. On June 19 2013, the Action Committee against Unabated Taxation (ACAUT), under the aegis of the Naga Council, Dimapur, called for a 12-hour shutdown in Dimapur to protest against the heavy taxation. The rally movement in 2013 and 2018 headed by ACAUT had facilitated and acted a harbinger of the dawn of hope easing people from this burden of multiple taxation yet it still remain a distant dream to realize, that hope into reality and common people suffer the most in this imbroglio under a disguised unpatriotic nationalism. A Naga entrepreneur in 2015 claimed that the NNPGs groups demanded an amount of INR 2.5 lakh. So if the number are equally divided, it roughly comes to about 1.25 lakh per one group and if the same are demanded by 8-9 factions of the underground, it amount to approx. 11.25 lakhs. Each of the different factional groups claims they have a legitimate right to collect tax as a result each item are taxed multiple times. In 2018, the Public Action Committee under the aegis of the Naga Council Dimapur iterated its appeal to Nagaland political groups to immediately stop serving demand notes and keep their commitment to shun "tax collection. Every commodity is taxed multiple times, right from transportation to storage to the point of sale. The burden of taxation is added to the price of every product that a common man buys in the market. The rise of the extortion and illegal collection has been systemic, affecting transportation, every item sold in the market including service industry. With almost a hundred unions and associations and 20+-odd political groups actively involved in imposing their writ under fees or tax, the commercial capital is fast becoming a criminal capital. As per the report in August 2024 by the FGN, currently there are 26 Naga political groups in Nagaland.