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Writing This After a Personal Incident with the Income Tax Process.

KK001

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If the Income Tax Department is so keen to verify sources of income, they have all the tools needed to trace and monitor accounts directly. Instead, they place the burden on the public, forcing people to waste time and money on chartered accountants to justify every single rupee. Even after staying up day and night to compile all the required documents, it often ends with a simple case closure. Who should suffer in this process? The IT department, ideally, as it’s their job. But instead, it's the public that suffers due to the department’s unwillingness to do the work of tracing transactions themselves.

In India, we already pay 30% tax on our hard-earned money, yet see little in return compared to the benefits citizens of countries like Bangladesh or Pakistan receive. Additionally, we pay GST on almost every item, and on top of that, the government demands income tax as well. Essentially, we are left to shoulder a never-ending burden of paying "tax on tax" just to feed a government that offers Nothing in return.

Even govt takes tax from us & feeds poor people then also it feels like we are not wasting money by paying tax.

In America people with no income or poor people get a monthly food voucher that works in every supermarket worth $300-400 (approx.), worth paying tax...
 
I totally agree. Tha tax code is unnecessarily complicated and the rates are too high. The burden falls on the lower/upper middle class and mostly salaried people.

I also got extremely pissed off while filing the last FY returns for my wife who's salary is <7L so there is no tds but because she has an FD we were required to pay tax on the interest. Now, this is still fine but they were charging penalty because we didn't pay 'advance tax'. I mean wtf is that! While rich evade tax, the salaried are required to pay 'advance tax'. Ridiculous!
 
Yup yup the process is cumbersome and a lot of times unnecessarily complicated cause income tax babus need more work to do.

But I will say one thing it's gotten easier... I've seen my dad, grand dad suffer through endless corruption every damn year before.
Right now life's alright, I got a query, we submitted the docs it got closed,
was the query correct .. no
Did I waste time with stress and high BP trying to collect everything ... Yes
Did it close... Yes <- this is the key pehle it din close till u paid people off even when they had nothing.
 
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