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Tax exemption ; More equal ; Cultural terrorism
The Telegraph | Northeast Echoes - Patricia Mukhim | Feb. 3
One of the great benefits that the STs enjoy is Income Tax exemption. That an IAS officer or a medical doctor or engineer earning as much as his/her non-scheduled, non-tribal counterparts is exempted from paying this tax or even from declaring his/her income annually is definitely an iniquitous arrangement.
Tribal members of the political and business class and even government employed engineers and bureaucrats in the Sixth Schedule northeastern states have amassed wealth beyond any of their known sources of income. But they get away with corruption. Come elections and politicians worth crores of rupees declare their assets in a miserable few lakh rupees only when everyone around them knows how many prime properties they own within their own state and in the metros.
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