12-hour a day working Bengaluru employee loses over 50% of income to taxes. Netizens agree

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earning of ₹5000, he had to pay 30 percent as tax to the government and later he said that on buying some beverages from the remaining money, for which he had to pay 28 percent as tax.  To this, he added that he who is working 12 hours a day had to pay more than 50 percent of his income to the government.  In his tweet dated 15 July, he wrote, "Today I earned ₹5,000. I had to give 30 percent to the government as tax. I thought of buying some caffeinated beverages from the remaining money and had to give 28 percent as tax.

I realized I am working 12 hours a day just to pay more than 50 per cent of my income to the government. His tweet garnered 593.8K views, 8,917 likes and 2,139 retweets on Twitter. Netizens commented on his tweet agreed to it One user wrote, “Earn money from agriculture and drink tender coconut water.

0 tax" Another wrote, “and your blood boils when you know that a great portion of tax revenue is going towards salaries, pensions of Government employees and unnecessary freebies rather than building infrastructure." Some other disagreeing to his tweet wrote, “30% Tax is on income above ₹10 lacs PA for an individual. And there are methods to save from proportion from it. Further the taxation burden in India is less than many developed countries" To which he replied, “If we are comparing countries, a lot of countries give that sort of facilities also for the taxes charged.

Countries like UAE give much better facilities without any taxes. I am just saying I am ready to pay taxes but then I need better air, food and water to start with." Some other wrote, “This is the pain of middle class today. If you buy a car there's not only 28% gst but also 22% cess .