Ludhiana: In pursuance of the directions of the government, businessmen are facing many problems in arranging the required documents like C-forms, VAT-20 forms and bank statements. They are up in arms against the assessments ordered by state taxation department for 2013-14. According to them, it is impossible for them to arrange all these things pertaining to six-year old period and in that case heavy penalties will be imposed on them. They are demanding that penalties be fixed according to the turnover of the businessmen, rather than imposing fines as per old provisions. Lashing out against the state taxation department, Jaswinder Thukral, president of Janta Nagar Small Scale Manufacturers Association, said, “We are clueless why did the state taxation department took the decision to open old cases, which were five to six years old. Regardless of our repeated reminders and requests, we have not been given any relief and the department officials are going ahead with assessments and sending us notices and reminders to complete these. But since the period for which they have sought these documents is very old, it is impossible to collect all required documents for everyone. In case one factory owner manages to trace the old C-forms, he is not able to get the VAT-20 forms. In case someone has got both these, then he has been unable to get bank statements for such old period.”