Aam Aadmi
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The Hon’ble Finance Minister should announce strong and robust mechanisms to ensure effective and efficient use of the Government resources collected from the consumers in India.
No increase in taxes except on products like tobacco, alcohol, automobiles, high end fashion and luxury products.
Zero tax on medicines, health care instruments, education and food.
All public service organisations must declare dividents and made accountable to the citizens through reforms and modernisation. We have to make quality health care and education accessible and affordable to all.
Tax incentives should be given to all industries established in rural India and should be a single window process for seeking registration and financial support.
We also suggest that a special fund should be created for all such individual tax payers who would have paid taxes for more than 30 years to be recognised and provided with old age support towards free housing, food and health care, in case of old age sustainability and livelihood.
All goods manufactured or imported should have excise and import duties respectively and heavy penalties should be imposed on tax evasion and counterfeit goods.
All taxes on goods and services within the States should be uniform and made simple in terms of collection and assessment processess.
The budget in brief should be simple, comprehensive and citizen-friendly with high degree of accountability and transparency in collection of taxes, public services and Government expenditures. collections through rational use of technological processes and systems. The consumer groups will be most happy to see competition at the marketplace with strong regulatory mechanisms to ensure fair business practices and real value for money”.
Bejon Misra
Dear Finance Minister,
Stories of gap between what industry demands and what colleges(UG and PG) produce has been in the limelight. The amount allocated for the education and the cess collected also needs to be utilized, there is a need for more recognized vocational courses for students to hone the skills.
Charu Sharma
Respected Finance Minister,
All over India Scientiests, Technocrats, Burocrats and People representatives are crying for draught is hitting GDP adversely and food grain shortage will badly effect food security of common people. Why you are not saying about ‘System of Rice Intesification”. Please take immediate step to introduce it . It is one the best ways to combat water shortage in rice production.
Thanks
Asok Maiti