WHY DO WE PAY INCOME TAX, SALE TAX etc.etc.etc.?

Question

Dear Viewer,
As in advertising seen govt. is asking to pay all taxes honestly to so we get nourish facility from them but are we getting honest response from govt. we are stll paying all bills like electricity , water, house, road taxes,transport tickets, etc.etc. so why govt need more taxes from us. if their facility r in losses its their management failure. we used to give bribe or extra amount to all govt employer like police, health, muncipal etc.. for our work or for taking govt. facility as they claimed in favour of our taxes and still we r paying taxes. in department of juducial we used to buy stamp papers. if we get any thing free its a long procdure after expenditure of our precious time. so i think we r not getting any facility in favour of our taxes.
Regarding subsidy its used to be blackmarketing on goods or subsidy is giving to poor people(its another thing they didnt received)who r not payingtaxes THINK!

Answer 1

I think this would be a very interesting question if your letter was readable. But to answer your initial question, taxes provide the government with the funds to create the infrastructure that businesses rely on, such as roads, water, airports, security, legal courts, protection of assets and such.

Answer 2

Actually the term tax was made for one reason. to collect some money from the income groups and distribute it to the poor non income groups in the form of electricity, roads, sesrage systems,etc. I agree with you that even when we pay our taxes regularly we do not get the proper aminities. But it's not the fault of the government or the tax department. It's the fault of the officials in all these departments like water, electricity,etc.

Answer 3

From the thread I gathered from the answers posted by people to this question is that people (Seem to be Indians) still have the impression that they have to get the benifits before they pay up. Cool, like eating at a restaurant, is'nt it? You eat what you like and pay up. How we wished we could eat what we liked and then haggle over the bill, that way we would only pay for what we liked or what we percieved the worth of the food to be , keeing in mind the prices of vegetables in the market.
Unfortunately thats not the way a government functions.
lets us try and list a few services that we use on a daily basis.
Electricity - we would like to have it free, or as close to free as possible. Now look at the costs of setting up a power generation station, Transmission lines, Distribution networks, People to run this, Fuel etc. The bill works out to a few lakh Crores. OMG, how on earth will I afford all that? - Answer - Taxes and huge cross subsidies by taxes on other sectors .
Transportation - The bus and train fare is expensive, it should ideally be a few paise , like my grandfather's days.
Look at the costs - Diesel prices are up, up and away, prices of all commodities like steel etc have gone through the roof, prices all over are up so the Bus driver conductor and all his support staff are demanding more salary. 'what if I had to pay all that by myself?
Relax the taxes paid you pay are used to subsidise transportation which are already arguably the cheapest in the world. If not for taxes the fare would have been probably 4 times as much. Dont look at the busses, trains in the UK, Japan, US etc, and wonder why ours arent as nice, just look at the fares we pay. You get what you pay for. The government has to think of the poorest sections before setting the fares.
Roads, Railways, airports etc.
Cost of building a railway - lets say 5 crore a Kilometer, OMG, where would I ever able to afford that? Relax, The roads are being built with tax payers money. You pay no taxes and there would be no more roads, rails or anything, besides the maintenance of the existing roads would soon degenerate to the point when we would have to stay at home, rather than go to work.
The list of facilities and utilities is innumerous. Lets not go any further. You think the facilities are not good enough? You think the Government is not improving on them as soon as you would llike them to?
Well there is a solution - Increase the amounts of money the government has by way of paying more taxes. Phew! Thank God the Tax rates are being rationalised each year in order to make tax paying more affordable to the common man. Besides giving him all facilities to improve his life and leaving him with sufficient money to live by.
You say subsidies are used for blackmarketing of goods? Im puzzled! I wonder how facilitating industries and farmers by reducing their monetary burden, could be used for black marketing goods? Whats the relationship?
Subsidies are given in order to make unviable ventures, at least minimally profitable for anyone to actually take it up. For example if fertilizers, electricity and water were not subsidized, the costs of producing food would be so high, common people might not afford to eat. If the costs went up, the demand would then go down, nobody would get into agriculture and there would be no food on the table. Thank God for subsidies.
Beside all this some part of the taxes we pay get eaten up by corruption, waste etc. It cant be helped, we should all try our best to stop corruption and wastage starting with ourselves. That is the only way ahead.

So my dear friend, pay up your taxes! Avoid bribing officials that way your paying taxes while getting zero benifit from it.

Answer 4

We never pay ihcome tax, sale tax etc. We are forced to pay tax on income, tax on purchases, on services, on entertainment, on property etc. All want money. Govt. also want money. My wife also want money. I am paying tax to all for all purposes. My daughter lost her cell phone, it is tax on me.
Tax is NOT bad if one get value for money. We pay taxes to Central Govt., State Govt., Corporation, Temple, Society, Association, wife but never get value for money. All roads are damaged.... Tax collector should use tax wisely.

Answer 5

Interesting question.

Without taxes you wouldn't have posted your question on this forum.

Answer 6

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