Everyone in India are paying the tax in various forms. It may be Income tax, Service tax, Sales tax, Professional tax, Value added tax,Property tax, excise duty and so on. We can't get anything in India with its original cost, there are multiple layer of tax is being added on top of the original cost.
Authority of levy tax are being derived from Indian constitution which allocated the powers to state and central government to levy taxes.
Basically taxes are segregated into two major part, those are direct tax and indirect tax. Direct taxes are taxes which we are paying directly to government, like Income taxes. Indirect taxes are taxes which are collected from the consumers by an intermediary, the person selling the product and paying to government, like Service tax, Sales tax, VAT and so on.
Fine, now, let's see the actual motto of levying taxes. Actually taxes are levied on the citizen to generate the income for public welfare schemes, improve the countries infrastructure, good sanitation system, quality education, quality hospitalization and so on. These all those things, government should make sure to the its citizens that every citizen is getting these services equally from the government.
But the reality in India is not exactly the same. We all know or we all agree upon who is providing better service in all the sectors. Yes, we all approach to the private sectors to get the better service, reason being is, government has delegated all the public sectors to private bodies.
All the highways are undertaken by private corporations and they are collecting the money for use the road without any control, no one is having any idea that what was the actual cost of the construction and how much they collected till date and government also failed to bring that clarify to public. Now government is ready to sell railways also to private.
If we are taking the schools, we all are much interested to study in private schools since we believe that private schools are providing good education than government, most of the cases that is true too. Most of the government schools are not having adequate facilities to the students.
If we are taking the hospitals, we are very afraid on government hospitals to get treatment, at the same time we are waiting more than a month period of time to get an appointment at private hospitals. On top of that, to reduce the medical burden, we are taking health insurance also.
Since all is being handed over to private bodies and they are charging us as per their own rules. At finally no basic service is availed from government, we all depend on some private bodies for our basic needs. so why should we pay tax to government?
Authority of levy tax are being derived from Indian constitution which allocated the powers to state and central government to levy taxes.
Basically taxes are segregated into two major part, those are direct tax and indirect tax. Direct taxes are taxes which we are paying directly to government, like Income taxes. Indirect taxes are taxes which are collected from the consumers by an intermediary, the person selling the product and paying to government, like Service tax, Sales tax, VAT and so on.
Fine, now, let's see the actual motto of levying taxes. Actually taxes are levied on the citizen to generate the income for public welfare schemes, improve the countries infrastructure, good sanitation system, quality education, quality hospitalization and so on. These all those things, government should make sure to the its citizens that every citizen is getting these services equally from the government.
But the reality in India is not exactly the same. We all know or we all agree upon who is providing better service in all the sectors. Yes, we all approach to the private sectors to get the better service, reason being is, government has delegated all the public sectors to private bodies.
All the highways are undertaken by private corporations and they are collecting the money for use the road without any control, no one is having any idea that what was the actual cost of the construction and how much they collected till date and government also failed to bring that clarify to public. Now government is ready to sell railways also to private.
If we are taking the schools, we all are much interested to study in private schools since we believe that private schools are providing good education than government, most of the cases that is true too. Most of the government schools are not having adequate facilities to the students.
If we are taking the hospitals, we are very afraid on government hospitals to get treatment, at the same time we are waiting more than a month period of time to get an appointment at private hospitals. On top of that, to reduce the medical burden, we are taking health insurance also.
Since all is being handed over to private bodies and they are charging us as per their own rules. At finally no basic service is availed from government, we all depend on some private bodies for our basic needs. so why should we pay tax to government?
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