Mumbai: The Wipro chairman, Azim Premji, has asked the Karnataka government to raise the professional tax levied on employees in the IT sector and review the State''s move to hike sales tax on IT products and services.

Premji met the Karnataka deputy chief minister, Siddaramiah, on yesterday to discuss the industry related infrastructural issues including the proposed hike in sales tax on IT products and services from five to 12 per cent.

Siddaramiah said that Premji had suggested that the government could raise the professional tax levied on IT employees, as they earn better salaries, to mobilise more resources and at the same time, felt that the sales tax on IT products was high.