Keep Paying!
Government is talking about formulating mandatory laws for CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility). The idea is to impose a law n Corporates under which they will have to spend 2% of their average income of three years as a part of CSR.
I think it is just another way to fled away from the responsibilities. Don't you think helping lower income society for development is the work of Government?Don't you think helping lower income society for development is the work of Government? Don't they carry responsibility of improving our infrastructure? What are they elected for?
Companies are already doing a lot of social work, with big giants like ITC, TCS, Infosys,L&T taking intiatives, but what about Government?
GOI has given licences to more than 16000 NGO's in the country for this work but do you think if all these NGO worked sincerely, our country would still have remained like this?
Just look around you. The roads you walk on, are nothing more than a bunch or flattened rocks, the buses you travel in, carries at least 3 times the people it is made for, unemployment is still a major concern in our Country, beggars on the roads are still uncountable.
We still need to bribe Government Officials to get our work done. Try registrering a flat for instance, you have to insert at least a 100 rupee note between the papers of Deed to get it approved and if you don't keep waiting for days and nothing will move even if your papers are very clear. People simply don't have that much time today so they end up molding themselves according to systems.
I came accross a recent case which happened with my own relative, who tried more than 4 months to get a land in her name but after so much hard-work she came to know that to get her own Brother-in-laws poperty in her name, she has to take approval from a Government Official. That land was not in dispute and papers were clear bu the official at Kanpur asked for Rs. 60,000/- just to sign the papers. Well it was obvious that the money was going into his pocket. The lady refused to pay the amount and left the land for some richer fellow who had the money bribe a few and get the land which he has no relation with.
Just imagine how many land properties are their in every city of India and how many people require to do the paper work for that. If the man took Rs. 60,000/- from every family, he must have been a billionaire by now. But on paper he will be the most innocent and poor person of the country.
Government already gives so many perks and incentives to their officials and above that the use their authority to squeeze the common man.
Lets take tax as one more case as a way of Government to take money from common man. Can you name how many taxes are levied on us by different ways?
Income tax, Service tax, Excise Duty, Customs Duty,Professional Tax... and to make the system look more beautiful, they added something called cess. So pay cess also and they will say it is not a tax. Wow!
The CSR issue tells a story of another try after already squeezing common man, which aims towards corporates. Well, India Inc is definitely against it but we never know what Government will do.
These corporates still have the authority and power to object but what about a common man? What do we have? Can we really speak out when we don't want what Government is doing? or even if we do does Government listen? or may be we elect them just to collect money.
The tradition of taxation started a long ago with an intention to help poor. The idea was to take the money from rich and distribute among poor. But today you can see how the system has modified itself.
While riches pay above 20 Crs in taxes they are still left with more than 70 but when a common man pays one-third of his salary, the amount remained is just a few thousand, half of which gets used up in household, and some more in conveyance. The amount left is enough for his sustenance but he can never become rich.
GOI kept a limit of 1.8L for tax exemption but do you believe the person earning this amount will be left with any saving today after all the expenses are met? Do they consider them for other taxes as well? Don't they still pay a half of their salary as taxes while buying things, eating out and travelling?
More than 60 years of independence but who is actually independent? Government. Common man is still not free. I won't say nothing has changed because a lot has but 60 years! Wasn't that enough time for a country like us to become developed? We have minds and resources but when it comes to success, there are road blocks everywhere. We cross every block for success but what to do with this boulder called "GOI"
We study that Government works for us. Sure it does. But at what cost? It takes much more than what it gives. So the formula is, if you want to live peacefully , "KEEP PAYING".
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