Tax everything and then say people try to evade tax

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Tax everything and then say people try to evade tax <https www indiatoday in business story online food delivery service apps likely to face gst council meeting september 17 1852959 2021 09 15>

gray-beach-48055 · Answer

Don t buy anything Tax avoided

orange-action-12733 · Answer

and when we ask development they say dont ask that

flat-morning-91037 · Answer

This taxation is basically fixing the missing tax as not every restaurant charged GST for delivery orders via Zomato Swiggy and entire purchase would go unaccounted Of course not every restaurant is doing it but it is fairly common practice too

quick-judge-84214 · Answer

List of things which are not taxed coming soon List of things which are taxed everything neutral face smiling face with tear

flat-morning-91037 · Answer

I just downloaded a couple of Invoices from my past orders on Zomato and none of those invoices mention any GST number be it Zomato s or the Restaurant itself or bifurcation of GST in amount breakdown It just stated Taxes and Charges How was it even allowed to begin with thinking face

powerful-planet-56851 · Answer

Swiggy used to apply GST and show the breakup in terms of CGST IGST SGST as well on the app I worked on this feature in my time there I don t see it now not sure why smiling face with tear

hundreds-photographer-33216 · Answer

While talking of swiggy is there a way to extract invoices for all past orders in one go

damp-coat-97256 · Answer

gt I worked on this feature in my time there I don t see it now not sure why Dark pattern Better to have some opaque number than give details I suppose

powerful-planet-56851 · Answer

Yeah I guess Maybe they saw order dropoffs by users seeing all those details I m not sure what the rationale to removing the feature was but the reason to add that feature was to comply with the govt in some way

flat-morning-91037 · Answer

Within app they just show `Taxes` but I had hoped at least the downloaded PDF invoice would be detailed one

victorious-energy-56764 · Answer

Tax is healthy Tax collection isn t the problem the problem is what they do with the collected taxes

melodic-jordan-81418 · Answer

^ I wouldn t mind paying high taxes if I m getting proper healthcare education public transport public infrastructure etc Right now none of these services justify the tax

flat-morning-91037 · Answer

Well only 1 5cr people pay taxes in a country of 130cr we can t have such unreal expectations joy

melodic-jordan-81418 · Answer

yes I understand that spending thousands of crores to put a particular person s new bearded portraits on every billboard newspaper tv channel and everywhere else I look is an absolute priority Maybe if more people pay taxes we ll have some change spared for the essential services

flat-morning-91037 · Answer

I can get into argument against that with actual statistics but it ll get political so I d avoid that slightly smiling face

melodic-jordan-81418 · Answer

always up for a healthy debate but yeah let s not make this space political Maybe we can discuss this sometime in the DMs

victorious-energy-56764 · Answer

gt Well only 1 5cr people pay taxes in a country of 130cr This is so utterly and completely wrong

victorious-energy-56764 · Answer

Only 1 5cr people pay income tax There are other kinds of taxes and every person who makes purchases etc pays the tax So rid yourself of the notion that only 1 5cr people pay tax and as someone who is paying tax you are bearing the burden for the rest of the population You re not

flat-morning-91037 · Answer

Of course I meant direct taxes because that s the group of people who expect more from the govt Not a sick burn but just a more relatable example would someone choose to be a regular individual tax payer instead of opting for 44ADA

victorious-energy-56764 · Answer

gt the group of people who expect more from the govt No not really Far from truth in fact A lot of the semi urban and rural people are directly dependent on Government for welfare They re way more dependent and they expect the government to take care of it

victorious-energy-56764 · Answer

gt would someone choose to be a regular individual tax payer instead of opting for 44ADA Nobody would pay more tax if a legal valid option to pay less tax is available Not even in countries like Singapore Denmark Germany So this doesn t give us any signal

flat-morning-91037 · Answer

Yup and that s a significantly larger number to be fed by people who actually pay direct and indirect taxes alike And we re talking about population which was censused back in 2011

victorious-energy-56764 · Answer

Anyway the larger point is tax is immaterial right now unless we get systemic fixes which we re not

flat-morning-91037 · Answer

The thing is there are way way too many people who evade tax in every way imaginable reporting fraction of actual revenue not including GST in their bills doing transactions in cash and etc While evasion is not common in larger cities with majority of its demography a service class eg Pune Mumbai Bangalore Hyderabad etc in smaller cities it is far too common for people to evade

orange-action-12733 · Answer

foolish leaders should concentrate increasing tax payers not tax Its like we paying for someones benefits we dont get anything for the taxes we paid pathetic roads govt schools poor health care Aadhar was brought up comparing to unique identifiers in other countries still failed all projects are big failures by modishah

hundreds-photographer-33216 · Answer

I don t think the leaders are foolish they are pretty smart at making a fool out of common man Look at this neat Section <https cleartax in s section 80ggb> I have heard people get 100 exemption and get the 80 of donated money back in cash Win win for political party and the company