Hi Thej, "Tax avoidance" or so might be better terms to use, else technically even the Dandi Salt Satyagraha was an act of "cheating" and will be perceived by future generations as so instead of the protest against an invasive and exploitative big government that it really was. There's no guarantees on history not repeating itself.
Also I think when earlier generations talked about the need to separate state and religion they were referring in part to keeping legalities and ethics separate : to not let a governing authority or bureaucracy dictate what is ethical and unethical. And I have a feeling that these statistics are actually subtraction results rather than actual statistics coming from raw data : Guess the number of people/companies that you think ought be paying taxes by triangulating other datasets like luxury goods sales, home buying etc. Subtract from it the actual number of tax payers (which would be the real and traceable data here coming from official records) . Balance is the guessed up (however intelligently, still a guess and not traceable back to any raw data) number of tax avoiders. I reckon that would be so because otherwise they could be easily traced down and the taxes recovered. Tax or revenue foregone, ie, tax purposefully not collected by govt from specific groups of individuals and companies -- on the other hand might be some hard data that one can work on. P Sainath and others have been talking about it since many years now and have been alleging that it's been illegitimately continued and inflated from a temporary pro-business incentive into a permanent state subsidy granted sans questioning to well-off entities (aka socialism for the rich) that could, if collected, fund most of the welfare schemes, OROP etc and mitigate govt deficits or pay off international loans. While we've been only seeing grand totals regarding this till now, it would be great if some deeper data analysis on this could be made possible and accessible. On 3/23/17, Thejesh GN <i...@thejeshgn.com> wrote: > Are there any data sources on the quantity of > > - Individual tax payers in India cheated government by various means > > And > > - Organizations/Companies running business out of India cheated government > by various means > > > > Thej > -- > Thejesh GN ⏚ ತೇಜೇಶ್ ಜಿ.ಎನ್ > http://thejeshgn.com > > -- > Datameet is a community of Data Science enthusiasts in India. Know more > about us by visiting http://datameet.org > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "datameet" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to datameet+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- Cheers, Nikhil +91-966-583-1250 Pune, India Self-designed learner at Swaraj University <http://www.swarajuniversity.org> Blog <http://nikhilsheth.blogspot.in> | Contribute <https://www.payumoney.com/webfronts/#/index/NikhilVJ> -- Datameet is a community of Data Science enthusiasts in India. Know more about us by visiting http://datameet.org --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "datameet" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to datameet+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
