This piece (with links to more pieces) might be of interest: http://www.livemint.com/Politics/IokyMXFN1Rpi4GP6mV3F4J/The-many-shades-of-corporate-tax-evasion.html And this report has some estimates by CBDT on black money: http://dor.gov.in/sites/default/files/Measures_Tackle_BlackMoney.pdf
Pramit Bhattacharya Mint 1st Floor, Hindustan Times House 18-20, Kasturba Gandhi Marg New Delhi - 110001 Mint page: http://bit.ly/1iN0cR1 Twitter handle: pramit_b Phone: (011) 6656 1684 Alternative email: prami...@livemint.com *"Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are." ~ Jose Saramago* On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 12:41 PM, Nikhil VJ <nikhil...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. > -- 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.
