June 30 , 2024
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	- Madhya Pradesh cabinet has decided that state ministers will have to pay their Income Tax, instead of the state government bearing such burden.
- They strike off the 1972 rule, under which the state government was paying the Income Tax on the salaries and perks of ministers.
- There are other states that have in the past amended provisions exempting ministers from paying tax. 
- In 2019, the Uttar Pradesh Cabinet decided to amend the law that exempted the Chief Minister and other ministers from paying their own income tax.
- The Himachal Pradesh Cabinet had in 2022 also said that all ministers and MLAs would pay their own income tax.

                                 
                            
                                
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