Chatting Up About India: Taxpayer Asks From Income Tax Code

The purpose of this article is to present income taxpayer view and some asks. Its cause is some movement in the government about relooking at tax code project more actively. After all, hope of taxpayer cannot be taken or taxed.

Ideally and reasonably, the tax code should mean an enabling force to lead Bharat towards the vision of 2047. For this to happen, taxpayer inputs are critical. Normally taxpayer inputs are taken as a checkbox ticking process. Tax administration does not record reasons for acceptance or rejection of inputs nor communicates anything about them, leave alone reasoning them out. Taxpayer suggestions pass as ‘consultation’, but falls way short of taking the shape of ‘consideration’. Everyone knows that the powerful finally do what they want and what will balance the budget as the obvious and fundamental matters remain off the agenda for decades. At the same time, it will be unfair to ignore work done by this NDA government in last 11 years towards making positive changes.

Nothing in this article that sounds sweeping, is not meant to be so, as there will always be exceptions. The matters in the following paragraphs are based on trends, concept of pre-dominance for the purpose of relevance, emphasis and common sense.

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