Viper0011.
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tax on wealthiest???seriously??
wealthy people who make 1,000,000 rupees or more a month would not even give a damn if they pay 20 rupees extra. its the poor class people who earn 10,000 rupees a month and for them its just another fist on the face. these crocks if wants to tax wealthiest why don't they widen the direct tax net on wealthy people instead putting more burden on poor people.
Here's how skewed up your logic is. This tax in question, for people to exceed 2 MB of broadband usage.....is for people like you and others on here, who live in their parents expensive homes, in AC and spend their lives bashing others.
For the ordinary 170 million Pakistan, there is pretty much no need to go beyond 2 MB. 2 MB is a good enough spectrum for Skype, Viber or other voice calling, Text Messages or Checking Yahoo mail. Anything beyond that, it luxury like people who spend hours on here for example and can afford to do so.
So yes, this tax isn't for the poor as the poor and average Pakistanis don't need to use more than 2 MB data. Beyond that should have heavy tax on such items so the tax revenue can exceed. The funny part is, every time these things happen, the average Pakistanis don't really complain too much as it's not applicable to them. The ones who complain......are the one's who are rich!!!! Go figure that out. Do you really think an average Pakistani making 10,000 - 20,000 rupees (or below that), raising a family of a couple of children can afford 1500 or 2000 rupees worth of internet every months like 25% of what they make??? NO!!!! That is a luxury and used primarily by the rich. So yea, more taxes on people who've made so many millions over decades, by avoiding taxes. That's one of the core ways to bring up the lower class up and provide better basic needs to the poor, which are about 75% of the Pakistani population.
Learn the difference between direct and indirect taxation... And do explain reducing taxes on sectors which are profitable while taxing those who already pay taxes... this budget is a farce
On the first line on learning the difference:
Next, this broadband tax is an indirect tax on the riches. That's how you get tax on items that are luxurious in nature and get the rich to pay that. You realize Pakistani government is getting a lot of help from the US and other bigger nations on auditing and streamlining the tax code, you'll see a lot of changes to the tax code where a lot more tax will be generated to provide for people's basic needs, in the next few years.
Next, in an overall weaker economy, when a few things are profitable and the rest are not, you can't give tax relief to ones which are profitable. You have to bring the economy to a growth baseline, and once you hit that, you then focus on certain aspects of growth and start to give tax breaks to areas already very profitable. That way, you are keeping everything in perspective.