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 Government of the day. As
per my research there is a very logical path that if adopted by Governments
then we can be saved from this usurious recovery from everybody rich to poor. The
basis of this conclusion is explained herein below:
Roadmap to Tax-free India
Emergence of the notion
that Nations can live without taxes
This situation that
nations can not only live but flourish by generating revenue from the huge bank
of Natural Resources, Concrete assets, Financial Assets and Intangible assets
like power to grant license, etc. has emerged as a sequel to my years of
research - 'how to evaluate and put a value to the assets of a country'. I feel so
gratified that ultimately God has rewarded me and now my research has
culminated in to devising a methodology that shall enable evaluation of assets
of India and every country of the world.
This methodology explains
in detail all related issues and runs into some 650 pages. It is
being brought in a document under the title “MONETIZING NATIONS” and is being
sent for Copyright registration to Government of India. Thereafter it shall be
put up at “INNOVATION” platform of Government of India for review by all
concerned people not only in India but globally.
This methodology shall present
financial profile of every village, town, city and metro (which are called
Geographical Entities – GEs, by Census of India. There are 6.58 lakh GEs in
India as per 2011 census) as to the value of all assets of different kinds
grouped suitably.
The methodology shall
give authentic information about various kinds of natural resources and
concrete and financial assets in every Geographical Entity as actual data of
stock in hand as on ‘Year-end’ date shall be entered by concerned government
officials of all departments in an online Data Input
Format of each of 6.58 lakh GEs. Secondly a data base shall be prepared for prices of these
assets. A sophisticated Computer program shall produce several kinds of output
reports from this huge data base.
The reports that shall be generated from this massive database would
include Financial Profile of every Geographical Entity, Financial profile of
every District by consolidating data of all villages, towns and cities under
it, Financial Profile of every Ministry of State and Central Government. The
Financial Profile of Ministries shall be computed by consolidating data
concerning them in the relevant Geographical Entities. Consolidation
of data of all Geographical Entities of a State shall enable computation of a
Balance Sheet of the State. Consolidation of data of all States shall
produce a Balance Sheet of the country as a whole. As you know, a Balance Sheet
is a statement of All Assets and Liabilities of an Enterprise on a particular
date. Additional staff required to achieve this information shall be
appointment of only one Chartered Accountant for every Ministry and a Chief
Chartered Accountant at the Center and in every State of India.
Once financial profile of
a Ministry is known then the natural query from that shall be what revenue the
Ministry is generating from the assets under its control. Is it commensurate,
can it be augmented? If yes, how? Thus financial information of a
Ministry shall open a flood gate of host of issues. Result shall be increase in
generation of revenue from assets of every Ministry by managing them in a better
businesslike manner. Isn’t it a joke that largest Railway network of the world
draws support from tax revenue and cannot generate sufficient income from its
operations? And similar will be the story of every Ministry once value of assets
under their control is known.
Government shall start
generating more revenue from its assets. The pressure on tax revenue
shall start decreasing. Extracting hard earned money from people is a heartless job that all governments have to do. It can be safely
assumed that Governments all over the world shall welcome this transformation
of earning revenue for administering the country from marketing goods and
services produced from assets at their command. As the income from assets shall
start rising dependence on taxes shall start reducing and a day shall come when
all monetary requirements of a country shall be met from revenue of its assets.
Result, a Tax-free regime!
Ahoy, can
you believe it can ever happen? No, because we have been brought up
in an environment where revenue from taxes is the Rule and not exception. My
joy is that I am foreseeing it happening one lucky day. This
experiment shall be first started in my country India and so India shall be the
first Tax free nation. In all likelihood next election of 2024 in India shall
be fought on this plank – Tax free India and
for this even the richest people shall rush to cast their vote because taxes
bite them most.
Things are not so Rosy
For a Tax-free regime to
become a reality a qualitative transformation shall be required in thinking of
our rulers. Country is ruled by two cadres – Executive and Legislators.
Executive are Secretaries and Legislators are Ministers. These people have
their own priorities. Executives are bound by various kinds of rules and
regulations. They run the risk of losing their position and risk of
investigation if any of their decision goes wrong. Legislators are elected by
voters of their constituency. So their first priority is to provide more
facilities for their voters. Working under such environment it is doubtful if
both these authorities can think out of normal box. A
revolutionary step may backfire also costing them their job. Hence a new cadre
of CEOs may have to be brought in from commercial world.
CEOs (Chief Executive
Officers)
A CEO is trained to
generate commensurate revenue from the resources provided to him by the
Entrepreneur. A CEO has to be a EARNER in contrast to a Minister who suffices
in being a good SPENDER. A politician’s primary attention is to create good
living condition for their voters. Resources for this expenditure is
available to them from tax revenue which is earned painlessly by
Government. In contrast CEO has not only to give commensurate return
but it is even more important that the revenue goes up every successive year. A
CEO loses importance as soon as revenue of an enterprise stops growing.
So creation of a new Cadre
of CEOs for every Ministry may be one of the necessary steps to achieve the
noble goal of a Tax-less Society if our Bureaucrats and Ministers cannot rise
to the requirement !
I have been a CEO in good
part of my life so I shall attempt to make an appropriate work plan for every
ministry of government of India on the basis of published data whereby they
start earning more revenue, generate more employment and provide good quality
of goods and services to the people at economical price. i shall
publish my study on my blog under the series “Roadmap to Tax Free India" !
Mr M.K. Agarwal
Retd CEO
Twitter handle
: @Ramsewak
Mumbai, India
P.S. I have already sent letters to Hon’ble Prime Minister, Finance Minister, Railway Minister, Infra
Minister, Chief Economic Adviser. These can be seen at my blog: mynotestopmofindia.blogspot.com/
I am enclosing a PPT that shall
give you an idea of my research.
I shall be glad to share
my Research paper on Monetizing Nations, running in to some 650 pages, for
review by any Economists.
Due to precarious health
I am confined to my house and cannot undertake any physical activity but God is
giving me energy to share my thoughts based on my knowledge and experience on
social media.
I am seeking an Alliance
Partner who can present my concept to Governments of India and put it in to
practice.
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