Prabs

"Decoding India's Tax Policy, Politics ,Reforms & Emerging Tech | Data Engineer" Follow for data-backed takes, not noise"

[Prabs @IndiaTaxTalk]

I'm tired of pretending this is fine.
I pay full tax. Full school fees. Full hospital bills. Full EMI, every month, on time. No subsidy comes down to me. No loophole exists up where I am. I'm stuck in the exact middle where nothing reaches.
The poor get support fair, they need it. The rich get write-offs, exemptions, structures I don't even understand how to access. And Me? I get a salary slip, a TDS deduction, and a "thank you for your contribution to nation building note"
I'm too well-off to qualify for anything. Too stretched to actually build anything. One medical emergency, one job loss, and this entire middle-class stability collapses like it was never real to begin with.
And I've finally understood why nobody fixes this: I'm the most reliable taxpayer this country has, and the least organized voter. I don't protest. I don't strike. I just pay, quietly, every single month so nobody in power has a reason to protect me.
So here's where I've landed. Nobody's coming to save the middle class. Save yourself, plan for yourself, protect what's yours because the system was never built to do it for you.
I'm not angry anymore. Just done expecting anything different.
#TaxReform
#MiddleClass
#realstruggle

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@indtxpyr @IamKishorBhat Then why govt is not giving option to decide if employee really want to move with epf or without

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@chiragbarjatya May be just to show up to public that leadsrs are not aware about the ground realities ..

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And what happen when that previleged person get lay off , recenlty lika VISA. Will they remeber the contribution made by the priviledged person ?? Or simply that person wont exisit in the memory anymore even though once privileged person need help and in really bad shape ? They won' Prove me wrong otherwise.

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filing a return and actually paying tax are very different numbers. A large share of ITR filers report zero net tax liability especially now, since the rebate under Section 87A effectively makes income up to ₹12 lakh (new regime) tax-free. I think we all can do the simple math that number who actually hand over money is meaningfully way smaller.
Thanks for Paying the taxes hope policy maker will bring some fresh idea on new Ladla bhai/Behna scheme. Happy contributing .

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Very less people actually paying taxes - filing a return and actually paying tax are very different numbers. A large share of ITR filers report zero net tax liability especially now, since the rebate under Section 87A effectively makes income up to ₹12 lakh tax free . We can do the math

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@KantInEastt The actual count of tax payers who is contributing significatntly is way lower than 5.9cr

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@indtxpyr Yes and i will keep Asking the system to actually act like it needs us because it does.
https://t.co/RR9yNC6yFi

[Prabs @IndiaTaxTalk]

**We Fund and Govt Doesn't Even Check If We're Okay.**
*A handful of us carry this system. In return, we don't even get a "how are you."*

We're not asking for charity. We're the ones actually funding it .every scheme, every subsidy, every salary in institutions that are supposed to serve us.

That makes us the client. The sponsor. The reason any of this runs at all.

So how does the system treat the people funding it? Like we're invisible.

School fees, hospital bills, emergencies we handle all of it alone, full price, no support, while still paying full tax on top. Nobody checks. Nobody asks. We're just expected to keep showing up and keep paying.

And the day we stop earning? We vanish. No follow-up. No "are you managing okay." Just silence, like we were never part of the system we spent our whole working life funding.

There's a story about a pizza company that noticed a regular customer had gone quiet for too long and reached out just to check if he was alive and well.

A random business cared more about one silent customer than a government cares about the people funding its entire existence.

We don't need to be thanked. We just need to be seen.

Anyone else feel completely invisible to the system you've spent your life funding?

#AbolishIncomeTax #taxreform
#TaxPayers #IncomeTax #Accountability

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@travelofindia Exactly Hafta vasooli is the right word for it. 1% every quarter, no excuse.
Meanwhile they hold our refunds and pay us half that rate back. Same delay, different rules depending on who's late.

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The Interest Rate Scam Nobody Talks About
They charge us double. We take what we get.
Miss your advance tax? 1% per month penalty. No grace, no excuse.
They hold your refund your own overpaid TDS for months? 0.5% per month. Half. Not a mistake. Written into law that way, on purpose.
We get punished at double the rate for being late. They get to sit on our money and pay us pocket change for the wait.
Call it whatever you want. It's not fairness. It's a system that penalizes us and barely compensates itself.
Same money. Same delay. Different rules depending on who's holding it.
#IncomeTax #TaxReform #abolishIncometax

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@indtxpyr Exactly. Abolish direct tax. Fix GST properly instead. There's a massive cash-driven economy sitting completely untouched right now that's where the real money is. Widen that base, not squeeze the same salaried few harder every year.

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@Basappamv There is a reason why india is a high corrupted system . They treat the real contributor (pvt emp) like they never exist .here is my take
https://t.co/RR9yNC6yFi

[Prabs @IndiaTaxTalk]

**We Fund and Govt Doesn't Even Check If We're Okay.**
*A handful of us carry this system. In return, we don't even get a "how are you."*

We're not asking for charity. We're the ones actually funding it .every scheme, every subsidy, every salary in institutions that are supposed to serve us.

That makes us the client. The sponsor. The reason any of this runs at all.

So how does the system treat the people funding it? Like we're invisible.

School fees, hospital bills, emergencies we handle all of it alone, full price, no support, while still paying full tax on top. Nobody checks. Nobody asks. We're just expected to keep showing up and keep paying.

And the day we stop earning? We vanish. No follow-up. No "are you managing okay." Just silence, like we were never part of the system we spent our whole working life funding.

There's a story about a pizza company that noticed a regular customer had gone quiet for too long and reached out just to check if he was alive and well.

A random business cared more about one silent customer than a government cares about the people funding its entire existence.

We don't need to be thanked. We just need to be seen.

Anyone else feel completely invisible to the system you've spent your life funding?

#AbolishIncomeTax #taxreform
#TaxPayers #IncomeTax #Accountability

[Prabs @IndiaTaxTalk]

@rohitjain2021 Reform needed :
https://t.co/RR9yNC6yFi

[Prabs @IndiaTaxTalk]

**We Fund and Govt Doesn't Even Check If We're Okay.**
*A handful of us carry this system. In return, we don't even get a "how are you."*

We're not asking for charity. We're the ones actually funding it .every scheme, every subsidy, every salary in institutions that are supposed to serve us.

That makes us the client. The sponsor. The reason any of this runs at all.

So how does the system treat the people funding it? Like we're invisible.

School fees, hospital bills, emergencies we handle all of it alone, full price, no support, while still paying full tax on top. Nobody checks. Nobody asks. We're just expected to keep showing up and keep paying.

And the day we stop earning? We vanish. No follow-up. No "are you managing okay." Just silence, like we were never part of the system we spent our whole working life funding.

There's a story about a pizza company that noticed a regular customer had gone quiet for too long and reached out just to check if he was alive and well.

A random business cared more about one silent customer than a government cares about the people funding its entire existence.

We don't need to be thanked. We just need to be seen.

Anyone else feel completely invisible to the system you've spent your life funding?

#AbolishIncomeTax #taxreform
#TaxPayers #IncomeTax #Accountability

[Prabs @IndiaTaxTalk]

After paying road tax. In return you will get potholes that can kill, bridges that can collapse.
We miss one payment, we get fined instantly. No grace, no excuse.
Bridge collapses, people die who gets fined for that? Nobody. Zero accountability, ever.
If you're still alive commuting on Indian roads, that's not infrastructure working. That's just luck. We pay like clients. We get treated like nobody's watching.

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@Ravisutanjani Severance is the only buffer between unemployment and rent and other due next week and the government still shows up asking for its cut. No exceptions. No timing. No empathy.
Private employees already have zero job security. Least the system could do is not tax the amount.

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@malviyapankaj True

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Visa Just Laid Off 2,600 People. Guess Who Still Gets Taxed Anyway.
Severance is supposed to be a cushion. The Policy Maker doesn't see it that way.
Visa cut roughly 2,600 jobs 7% of its workforce this week, mostly from tech and product teams. For every Indian employee caught in cuts like this, here's the reality severance pay still gets taxed as regular income, at a moment when you have zero income coming in.
This is the exact moment someone needs support no salary, mounting expenses, urgent job search and instead of relief, there's a tax bill on the one cushion meant to help them land.
Meanwhile, countries with real worker-support systems treat layoffs differently unemployment benefits, transition support, tax relief on severance specifically because it's compensation for job loss, not income for work done.
In India? Pay the tax first. Then figure out the rest alone.
We don't need charity. We need a system that recognizes the difference between income and a safety net.
#TaxReform #LayoffTax #IndianEconomy
#abolishIncomeTax #severance

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@ggganeshh Duhhh

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@malviyapankaj No employee willing want a termination letter.

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@SambhavaamiY Agree

[Prabs @IndiaTaxTalk]

**We Fund and Govt Doesn't Even Check If We're Okay.**
*A handful of us carry this system. In return, we don't even get a "how are you."*

We're not asking for charity. We're the ones actually funding it .every scheme, every subsidy, every salary in institutions that are supposed to serve us.

That makes us the client. The sponsor. The reason any of this runs at all.

So how does the system treat the people funding it? Like we're invisible.

School fees, hospital bills, emergencies we handle all of it alone, full price, no support, while still paying full tax on top. Nobody checks. Nobody asks. We're just expected to keep showing up and keep paying.

And the day we stop earning? We vanish. No follow-up. No "are you managing okay." Just silence, like we were never part of the system we spent our whole working life funding.

There's a story about a pizza company that noticed a regular customer had gone quiet for too long and reached out just to check if he was alive and well.

A random business cared more about one silent customer than a government cares about the people funding its entire existence.

We don't need to be thanked. We just need to be seen.

Anyone else feel completely invisible to the system you've spent your life funding?

#AbolishIncomeTax #taxreform
#TaxPayers #IncomeTax #Accountability

[Prabs @IndiaTaxTalk]

@Niharikam1 A random business cared more about one silent customer than a government cares about the people funding its entire existence.

[Prabs @IndiaTaxTalk]

The Interest Rate Scam Nobody Talks About
They charge us double. We take what we get.
Miss your advance tax? 1% per month penalty. No grace, no excuse.
They hold your refund your own overpaid TDS for months? 0.5% per month. Half. Not a mistake. Written into law that way, on purpose.
We get punished at double the rate for being late. They get to sit on our money and pay us pocket change for the wait.
Call it whatever you want. It's not fairness. It's a system that penalizes us and barely compensates itself.
Same money. Same delay. Different rules depending on who's holding it.