Why did I employ the constitutional officers like a PM, the council of ministers at the center and a CM and his ministers at the state level? Why am I paying big fat salaries to them? a) Am I employing them to clean the roads in the name of clean India or whatever you may […]
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A MIRAGE CALLED TAX
We do not know ourselves that we believe in mirages. Tax is a mirage. When a mirage / an illusion becomes reality, then tax is welfare! Recently I was reading in the press, a prominent news. It was a head line in almost all newspapers across India. There was pride, satisfaction and the greatest sense […]
GOLDEN AGE OF PEACE & PLENTY – MAN ATE MAN
Prior to the British era, the History of India was a history of princes, not of peoples. Under no regime of any recorded period, did the people’s welfare determine any Indian ruler’s policy. The people lay like clots of helpless insects beneath their master’s feet. Because of forgotten sin in some forgotten life (Karma), the […]
TAX ON SALT – 12th March – DANDI MARCH 1930
The salt satyagraha began on 12 March and ended in Dandi with Gandhi breaking the Salt Act on 6 April. On 12 March 1930, Gandhi and 80 satyagrahis, set out on foot for the coastal village of Dandi, Gujarat, over 390 kilometers from their starting point at Sabarmati Ashram. These satyagrahi “Volunteers”, working all day […]
Why do Indians hate to pay Taxes?
The word tax has only negative connotation in India. Hence, neither the word ‘tax payer’ nor the word ‘tax’ can be viewed positively. Tax is synonymous for oppression, looting, exploitation, legalized robbery and these descriptions are unending. Prior to independence, the leaders of the Indian National Movement, described taxes as a way of keeping Indians […]
