<b>Letters:</b> End tax exemptions

If the government means business, the charity should begin at home

In the piece, “Data crunching: Are we a nation of tax avoiders?” (February 28), Ishan Bakshi holds the gamut of tax exemptions — including farm income being kept outside the tax net — largely responsible for the country’s low tax to gross domestic product ratio. 

Bakshi cites relevant statistical data to drive home his points by taking into account other emerging economies apart from the taxation situation prevailing in BRICS economies. In addition, he talks about the multi-layered taxation regime, which comes under the exclusive domain of state governments in India, and how that could possibly have escaped the World Bank’s