New Delhi: Finance Minister Jaswant Singh on April 8 said there was no pressure from the Centre on states to impose Value-Added Tax (VAT) and it was entirely up to them to take a decision on it.

Singh told this to a five-member committee of senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders constituted to go into the issue of VAT, BJP spokesman V K Malhotra told reporters.

He said the members were informed by the Finance Minister that VAT was a state subject and whatever assistance they wanted the Centre was prepared to extend them.

PTI