Open Letter to Trade Associations of India
Respected Industry Stalwarts ! This submission may shake you up and compel you to wonder how we all are being deprived of a substantial part of our valuable earning due to total inefficiency and folly of governments ! We are accustomed to pay a major portion of our hard earned income by way of Direct and Indirect taxes that take away almost 50% of our earning, e.g. 1. Payment of direct tax @ 30% . We paid to government Direct tax during 2018-19 a massive amount of Rs. 10.21 Lakh crores 2. Payment of GST on all our purchases at almost 15%. Government collection in one month alone in April 2019 towards GST was Rs. 1.13 lakh crore (may exceed 14 lakh crore in current year 2019-20). We are mechanically and very faithfully going on paying these taxes without questioning the Go...