Wed Jan 24 01:21:24 2001
Name:naitik parikh
Email:naitikjsk@rediff.com
Suggestions:Dear Sir,
I am writing this letter from buffalo, usa. but i know the condition of indian people. they haven't home to live, food to eat, water to drink. so try to make budget that help poor people. It is also very omportant to maintain an economy growth high so so you have to care all things.
Our BEST OF LUCK TO YOU.
Naitik Parikh
Wed Jan 24 01:25:36 2001
Name:Balaji V
Email:bala_9@yahoo.com
Suggestions:Hello Mr.Finance Minister,
I guess you must be ready with the budget for the coming year by now.
But, firstly, I should congratulate you and Mr Atal for having the guts to
take bold initiatives.
Apart from all the changes in labour laws and dismantling the "Licence Raj",
we need to give a boost to the internet economy at the earliest.
For this to happen, local calls upto a radius of 10 km need to be made
free with immediete effect. Unless this is done, comman man in India is
never going to be able to utilise the amazing power of the internet.
Charging toll charges for local calls is killing the groth of the Internet
in its infancy apart from paying for the INEFFICIENCY of the DOT.
Thanks and keep the good work going!
--
regards,
Balaji (an ardent supporter of BJP!)
Wed Jan 24 01:27:47 2001
Name:rangababu
Email:c_rangababu@rediffmail.com
Suggestions:reduce the petrol prices and try to keep the rupee UP against the dollar.
Wed Jan 24 01:30:02 2001
Name:Dhruva
Email:dhruvavv@hotmail.com
Suggestions:Dear Sir,
Point1 . Incentive to pay tax in India.
I work for a reputed Indian IT company in US. I have a option taking some part of my salary in India. but since i am taxxed on it at a higher percentage i take it here in US.
Is it not possible to have a lower tax rate for the Indian salary component for people who are not in India but drawing salary in India.
Point2 . I want to build a house for my parents and myself in India. But i have heard that i can not avail the tax benift if i am not working/staying in the city wher the hosue is being built. it is impossible for me to avail this benefit. are you going to have any insentives for people like me.
Wed Jan 24 01:31:17 2001
Name:Vivek Kapadia
Email:vivek_kapadia@writeme.com
Suggestions:Mr Finance Minister,
Please realize that education is the most important thing that we need to drive oursleves into 21st century.
We need large scale political programming to kick start into education reforms. I am looking for some extra-bold intiative from you.
Wed Jan 24 01:32:02 2001
Name:Satish Hangarkatte
Email:hangarkatte@hotmail.com
Suggestions:Mr Sinha
Here is suggestion
1. Introduce some measure to collect income tax from every earning persons. We need to come up with some kind of ID Number (like Social Security No. here in States). Encourage people to collect sale tax and come up with a proposal to clean that so less cheating on system.
2. Cut goverment employee size .. encourage private sector.
3. India should make real progress in internet. In this bugdet please have a plan that by 2010 every citizen should connected with internet.
4. Work on idea to encourage all NRI to invest on Stocks (NOT ONLY NRI-deposit). NRI are investing on NYSE very well here.
Thank you.
Satish
Wed Jan 24 01:44:01 2001
Name:JAYAKUMAR
Email:JSR19532001@YAHOO.COM
Suggestions:RAISE THE INCOMETAX EXEMPTION LIMIT TO RS 100000.
Wed Jan 24 01:46:26 2001
Name:Anshu Sharma
Email:anshu_sharma@yahoo.com
Suggestions:Dear Finance Minister,
I am an NRI with limited resources (not a multi-millionaire) but have a net worth of 100,000 dollars (say). A vast majority of NRIs fall in this category. It is very hard for people like us to do the following:
- Invest in Indian stock market directly (without complicated forms to fill). How about an exemption for upto 100,000 dollars per person?
- It is hard to send money to India. All PSU banks are ridiculously mismanaged on this front.
- Full Convertibility is the need of the hour.
- BTW, the latest VSNL results prove that India should unilterally reduce the amount it charges for incoming calls and make it at par with China/Singapore.
-Anshu Sharma
Wed Jan 24 01:48:14 2001
Name:Anand Majethia
Email:dude_khp@rediffmail.com
Suggestions:Please sir, Please make an high import duty on the goods coming from China as they hamper industrial grwoth in our country and sir please do not implement any further taxes on us.We are not in a position to pay it.
Wed Jan 24 02:00:36 2001
Name:narsaraj kompally
Email:narsaraj@Hotmail.com
Suggestions:Sinhaji,
I have a suggestion. Why dont you ask every citizen of india to contribute just 1Re per month to the nation and also ask every citizen of india abroad donate 1 (of respecitive denomination like 1 dollar from US based indian citizen). This will not only solve some of our problems and also help them to show their patriotisim. let me know your thoughts onthis.
Wed Jan 24 02:00:43 2001
Name:Prakash Malligemane
Email:Prakashkumar_m@usa.net
Suggestions:I hope this Budget may brings some ray of happiness to the middle class peoples.
I have some requests before the Finance Minister.
1. Give more priority to the Hardware Technology like Software Technology because earlier one is almost in dieing stage in India.
2.In this budget give more priority to computerizing the government adminstration that makes the way for the trasperancy and checks the corruptions.
3.Reserve some funds for connecting the Ganga - Cauvery dream project.
Wed Jan 24 02:14:00 2001
Name:T.R.Shamabhat
Email:shamabhat@rediffmail.com
Suggestions:1.steps to hardware development.
2.Expansion of technical education at lower level keeping in mind the rural youth
3.Stress on bilingual education from the primarylevel in rural areas.
Wed Jan 24 02:23:16 2001
Name:Ramesh Nittoor
Email:rnitt@msn.com
Suggestions:Sir,
Request consider the option to stop foriegn aid, reschedule external debts and go for higher deficit to finance development. At the same time open private economy for foriegn equity, debts, insurance and other financial instruments.
Wed Jan 24 02:38:52 2001
Name:Santosh
Email:santoshkrsri@yahoo.com
Suggestions:Dear sir,
Government must downsize itself. The money we will get should be spent for improving primary education, roads, health etc to build social infrastructure in our villages.
Wed Jan 24 02:39:24 2001
Name:Santosh
Email:santoshkrsri@yahoo.com
Suggestions:Dear sir,
Government must downsize itself. The money we will get should be spent for improving primary education, roads, health etc to build social infrastructure in our villages.
Wed Jan 24 02:42:24 2001
Name:Rediff Com
Email:rediff@rediff.com
Suggestions:Remove the restriction of living abroad for six months to get NRI status. You want it before you are leaving for the same.
Wed Jan 24 02:44:20 2001
Name:D. Misra
Email:durga_misra@hotmail.com
Suggestions:Dear Mr. Sinha,
I was visiting my village
in Orissa. It is exactly same
as it was 35 years ago.
Please do something to advance
the rural India.
Regards
Durgamadhab Misra
Associate Professor
Electrical Engineering
Wed Jan 24 02:44:36 2001
Name:Damodaran Kothandan
Email:dkothandan@worldbank.org
Suggestions:Remove all subsidies and concession give to indivijuals,sectors, caste etc. It is 50 years after independence and why are we continuing these subsidies and concessions.
Privatise all possible public sector undertakings and give importance to cost control in various sections of the Government.
Wed Jan 24 02:45:54 2001
Name:Devendra Babel
Email:gulabny@aol.com
Suggestions:Develop The Good Relation with Bush Govt. and Try to Make his visit to India and Make Good Finance deal with USA. Open the Govt.Service Centre at overseas to resolve the Visa Problems of NRIs.
Give Duel Residential Status to NRIs.
Wed Jan 24 02:46:14 2001
Name:ak
Email:ashok_raju@hotmail.com
Suggestions:Please do whatever you think is good for the country and leave aside politics.
Wed Jan 24 02:54:08 2001
Name:M Bhatt
Email:mba2001@rediffmail.com
Suggestions:what abt money that gets deducted while transferring money from US or anywhere to India.gonna be any change in it ?
Wed Jan 24 03:11:53 2001
Name:RamKumar
Email:rambrk@hotmail.com
Suggestions:Sir,
In the budget 2001 i would request u to focus your efforts on downsizing the government and reduce the fiscal deficit.I wish something to that effect be made nore aggressive in the comming budget. Not achieving the disivestment target really concerns me and iam not sure what are your concrete plans ? Another suggestion of mine is to make more allocations to the state that are performing well. Thre does not seem to be any merit in the current which does reward a good performing state.
Wed Jan 24 03:20:56 2001
Name:Dr. Vinay Deolalikar
Email:vinayd@hpl.hp.com
Suggestions:Dear Mr. Sinha,
I am a keen student of economics and
developmental studies. My only suggestion to you
is to increase our educational spending
as % of GDP to about thrice what it currently is.
We absolutely must spend all we can on educating our
illiterate millions. No nation can call itself anything
but third world if its literacy rate is
as low as ours is. And yet we consistently spend less than
the world average on education.
Where do we get the money from? That's where
you have to display courage. Defence spending freezes
could be a start.
Yours
Dr. Vinay Deolalikar
Wed Jan 24 03:23:13 2001
Name:Rajat Anand
Email:rajat_anand@hotmail.com
Suggestions:Sir,
I have been working in the US on H1
visa for some time now. It seems that
the US government's most profitable division
is INS. These guys provide H1 visa and charge
a fees of $1000 for that. Well a lot of Indians
come to the US on H1 visa. Why can't India impose
a fee of $200 on the airport to any person who is
starting his trip for the first time on H1 visa.
Well the individual/sponsoring company should be easily
able to absorb this cost and according to my
estimate
100,000 x200 = $20 million = 900 crores
can be easily generated every year.
Well when there is enormous demand for Indian
professionals why should not our country also
take advantage to this.
This can be easily extended to anyone who has a
long term visa and is leaving the
country for the first time.
Beleive me no one will make any noise
about this.
Just have a thought on this one.
Wed Jan 24 03:25:30 2001
Name:Darshak Patel
Email:darshakp@yahoo.com
Suggestions:Please allocate sufficient fund for infrastructure developments of our country and encourage tax discounts to companies who work for infrastructure developments
Wed Jan 24 03:25:43 2001
Name:Darshak Patel
Email:darshakp@yahoo.com
Suggestions:Please allocate sufficient fund for infrastructure developments of our country and encourage tax discounts to companies who work for infrastructure developments
Wed Jan 24 03:26:16 2001
Name:K.Ravichandran
Email:mkravi@rediffmail.com
Suggestions:Mr. Finance Minister,
Thank you for the great opportunity to mail you.
I am a Software Engineer,working in a leading IT firm in India.
Would like to address few things.
1. In our country, only the salaried people are paying income tax, Business people, Industrialist, Politicians, film stars and sports stars are not paying tax for their real income. And many of them take a huge volume of loan from Nationalised bank but many of those don't even repay the loan. So, frankly speaking I feel paying tax is not worth.
2. What is your plan to cut the increasing expenses for the politicians in power?
3. It is good to see the development among the urban area. But do you care about the people who does not even used phones, many are not even know if it is telephone. I feel allocate the fund for their development is not enough, you have to monitor how many percentage of that is reaching for the purpose you allocate.
3. I have a feeling that, there is no leader in our country who really cares about Farmers in India?
5. When you compare the infrastructure with many countries, ours is poor. This is because of as I have mentioned in point one, tax is not collected from everyone who supposed to pay, state Govts. not utilising the fund properly. What is your plan for that?
Please consider these points,
With Best Wishes,
Ravichandran.
Wed Jan 24 03:27:35 2001
Name:Naveen Reddy
Email:naveen.reddy@ps.ge.com
Suggestions:Please sell or close down all Public sector enterprise. These are a loss to the nation and breed inefficiency.
Thanks,
Naveen Reddy.
Wed Jan 24 03:29:41 2001
Name:Krishna Gaddam
Email:kgaddam@rediffmail.com
Suggestions:I expect honorable FM will take necessary steps to include the following people: graduates/post graduates/professional/political leaders
in the income tax net.
Thanks,
Krishna
Wed Jan 24 03:30:00 2001
Name:Vinayak
Email:vinrajan@123india.com
Suggestions:Please reduce the import duties on Computer's and related parts. More and cheaper the computers, the better. The gray market needs no protection !! Get wireless really going in the country. Dump the license raj or perish.
Wed Jan 24 03:31:53 2001
Name:Balamurali Srinivasan
Email:balasrinivasan@yahoo.com
Suggestions:Can u reduce the Tax Burden on People?
I mean if I want to buy something 50% goes in Tax,I beleive.
Wed Jan 24 03:34:09 2001
Name:Gokul V Shankaran
Email:g.shankaran@att.net
Suggestions:0. Concentrate on preserving what we already have than trying to get outside help for increasing our wealth.
1. Indian market and talent are well sought after commodities. When you invite MNC's don't promise concessions without assuring concessions from them. Their mere presence in India is an added burden on the tax payer and far from Midas's touch.
2. Liberalization = Give & Take relationship. Guard against Enron DPC like situation, where the Indian govt. (aka tax payer) has given mindboggling concessions to the MNC, but the MNC doesn't promise to provide power at the original estimated rate of Rs2.03 per kWh but instead at Rs.5.29. Now we are have bound ourselves by our promises to them, but they have not made any promises to us. They can't hope for this even in US.
3. Investment in forests = water resources conservation + reduced national medical bill + added organic agricultural yields. We have 19% land under forests, 45% under agriculture, we still have plenty of barren and scrub land in most of the states.
Wed Jan 24 03:36:07 2001
Name:Navin Bhargava
Email:navin_bhargava@hotmail.com
Suggestions:Why has India failed to invest in providing satisfactory free primary and secondary education? It is the ONLY way to address our many and complex problems...the benefits of the painfully slow process of privatization have not reached the poor and will not reach them for a very long time. The only hope is to educate and empower them to take advantage of the growing IT industry and spur entrepreneurship and draw investment. Furthermore, over time this will reduce social welfare expenditures and corruption (an educated country is a more morally responsible country and one in less need of corrupt means). The benefits are endless and too long to list here. I sincerely hope you will give some consideration to dramatically increasing government investment in primary and secondary education. If for no other reason then to respect our constitution...we have done a pitiful job thus far, you can change that Sir.
Wed Jan 24 03:36:20 2001
Name:Umachandra
Email:uchik@hotmail.com
Suggestions:Forget all this. All in the Govt. have to work hard to stop this freaking Population from growing, else it will do a great harm to our future generations. Our children's future will be destroyed because of this.
Wed Jan 24 03:42:17 2001
Name:mahesh maddur
Email:maheshmaddur2001@yahoo.com
Suggestions:Give tax benefits to our small scale industries so that we can compete with Cheap imports of China
Wed Jan 24 03:43:50 2001
Name:Maran Nagarajan
Email:maran.nagarajan@akzonobel.com
Suggestions:Dear Sir,
I would like to submit my below mentioned suggestions to you for this budget.
We are spending so little for the purpose of education and primary health. Kindly make your main focus for this budget as education and Health.
Kindly increase the budget for education to atleast 2 % of the GDP and at the least 3 % of GDP to health. These i think would be the bare minimum we should invest to help the 40% below poverty line and practically speaking 60% who is below the decent living standards.
Hope you will fulfill these suggestions of mine.
Regards
Maran Nagarajan
Wed Jan 24 03:45:54 2001
Name:Arvind Kale
Email:arvind_kale@hotmail.com
Suggestions:Wish you best of luck and hope you bring our economy to number one in the world.
Regards
Arvind
Wed Jan 24 04:07:45 2001
Name:George varghese
Email:geo_v@hotmail.com
Suggestions:Increase the inflow of foriegn companies to india, by this we create more wealth.Moreover make it a point that all companies in IT sector help universities and promote research of new product in INdia
Wed Jan 24 04:08:29 2001
Name:0
Email:0@0.0
Suggestions:0
Wed Jan 24 04:10:24 2001
Name:kalyanakrishnan
Email:krishnan_v@yahoo.com
Suggestions:Respected FM,
I would like to suggest that products which are bought in the market should be billed, so that the tax goes to the government. Also please do something about the construction of building. Not many follow the building codes and regulations. I insisist that a fine be imposed on all such buildings.
Thanks
Best Regards
Krishnan
Wed Jan 24 04:27:45 2001
Name:Krishnan
Email:rvkrish@hotmail.com
Suggestions:would suggest that the
government based
profit based organizations
gives salaries & all
benefits to its employees
only from the
earnings it does and
not from the tax money.
let all govt employees
sweat to earn their
monthly income.
that's the one of the
crucial ways india can
allocate tax money for
developmental programs
Wed Jan 24 04:38:12 2001
Name:Prasanna Gokhale
Email:gokhs@usa.net
Suggestions:1. Extend the VRS scheme to Govt. offices with an attractive compensation package. This will help in reducing expenses and computerize many facilities and also create a few new job opportunities.
Wed Jan 24 04:51:21 2001
Name:N.K.Raghavendran
Email:raghavnk@rediffmail.com
Suggestions:The one-in-six scheme was a good move. But It has only brought in a huge number of Tax Returns without a corresponding increase in tax revenue. The FM should make a compulsory levy of say Rs.1000 for everyone of these assessees as IT . If they file regular return they can show this payment and take credit for the same like TDS. If they show nil tax liability, then this can be their contribution to nation building!
Wed Jan 24 04:57:45 2001
Name:Ashok Das
Email:nutu_99@yahoo.com
Suggestions:Please launch one more Bond Issue in the lines of Resurgent India Bond. We NRIs of USA would like to pool forex through that. We were disappointed not able to subsribe the Millenium Bond.
Wed Jan 24 05:00:52 2001
Name:Rohit Puri
Email:rohitpuri@hotmail.com
Suggestions:Shri Yashwant Sinha,
I am an Indian student pursuing my Ph.D in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley. I got my bachelors degree from IIT-Bombay. My high level request to you is to continue your governemnt's efforts to separate political institution from economic institution in our motherland. Our country stands at a critical point in development from where for the first time in modern history we have a chance to make it big and become an economic superpower. We are all looking forward to you to lead us through this juncture by making the right decisions.
An Indian.
Wed Jan 24 05:02:41 2001
Name:Mukund Joshi
Email:joshi.mukund@usa.net
Suggestions:Double Rebate u/s 88. Will help in increasing domestic investment and do not have to rely on Millenium deposit where we give more than what we receive
Wed Jan 24 05:04:15 2001
Name:Srini B
Email:srini_bodapati@rediffmail.com
Suggestions:1. Set a clear agenda for disinvestment.
2. Give more sops for infrastructure creation
3.Allocate more money for primary education and literacy programmes.
4. Make higher education self-sufficient.
5. Learn lessons from the Chinese experience
Wed Jan 24 05:14:44 2001
Name:Farhad Master
Email:masfy001@students.unisa.edu.au
Suggestions:1) Minimize exports of food & food products,
2) Increase the level of equal distribution
3) Thus bringing the prices down for our own country men.
Wed Jan 24 05:28:38 2001
Name:suresh
Email:sundharrajan@yahoo.com
Suggestions:how many years u think india will take to become the super power in asia???
Wed Jan 24 05:29:20 2001
Name:Mrugesan
Email:esteem69@rediffmail.com
Suggestions:Dear Sir,
Every time while budget comes, each and every one is expecting some benefits. At that same time not bothering about the wealth of the country. Of course saying this is very easy then doing. Why this happened, there is no difference between the person who is also thinking about nation wealth and unlawful person. Government says, we are care about the poor people and poorest people. So we are putting additional tax burden on rich people. This may be useful at the maximum to attract vote banks (that also not true as per my belief). But it never helps to encourage the people who really work hard and give a big money as tax. It ends up with cheating government and grows block money or pay tax legally and become join with poor community. Block money really has huge chain reaction, to keep that money, lot of illegal activity continues, which finally destroy the nation in so many ways. Capitalism not recommend this, who work well and hard let them enjoy the benefit, and who does not like to work, then let them face the result. This is increasing day by day, because there is no difference between legal tax payer and who cheating and avoid tax pay by escaping intelligent way. Why? What benefit government gives to legally tax paying citizen. If you are saying that government gives great infrastructure, school, medical facilities, and etc. Yes it is true, but there is no difference between citizen. So good citizen get nothing.
Raising any issue is very easy, that is most of the politicians are doing, but providing right solution is very difficult. I do suggest a way here to encourage the legally tax paying citizen.
SUGGESTION:
1. Instead of reducing the income tax for individual or family, deduct certain percentage for his social security from the tax. For example, 30 % tax means, ( 5% for social security + 25 % actual tax). This social security can be used after his/her retirement benefit. To boost and encourage this, government may contribute certain percentage.
2. Take strong action against cheating elements.
Implementing this suggestion will be advantage in several ways, among them
1. Encourage tax payers, who pays more tax he will get more benefit and vise versa.
2. Differentiating tax payer and non tax payer.
3. Providing a security on their elder days.
4. Keeping this money for other development and so many other ways
Thanks for your consideration,
Note: I don’t know, whether this mail reach its destination or not, but as a citizen I am suggesting this on dreaming wealthy India. Jai hind!
Wed Jan 24 05:36:33 2001
Name:anoop tripathi
Email:tripathianoop@rediffmail.com
Suggestions:sir, kindly increase income tax limit of 50000 to atleast 1 lakh.also increase standard deduction from 20000 to 50000. thanks
Wed Jan 24 05:38:24 2001
Name:VIRENDRA GULATI
Email:gulativk123@rediff.com
Suggestions:Sir,
Rationalise excise duties on daily needs,remove corruption from central excise and custom depatt. Thanks
Wed Jan 24 05:40:33 2001
Name:Saikat Saha
Email:saikat.saha@commerceone.com
Suggestions:Honourable Minister,
I am in the USA for past one year and always
wonder what makes this country so very different from my motherland.
I feel in past few years India has made enough progress and we need to maintain the pace if not
enhance the pace. My suggestion would be to focus in following direction,
1. Basic Education and Health Care
2. Infrastructure
3. Opening up Economy to next level
4. Enlarge the Tax base by heavy penalty for tax evasion and stringent rule
to collect tax from Business Enterprises, Private Medical Practitioner etc.
I guess only Middle class salaried people are the only default individual tax payers.
This measure would increase the Government revenue tremendously.
5. I would also like to see some government effort to boost export.
Today when I go to any shopping mall in USA, I find products primarily made in China, Phillipines, Thailand, Korea even Pakistan, Bangladesh and Srilanka but hardly Indian products.
I guess we have lots of opportunity here if our sanctions are lifted(Hope Collin Powel is going to do that)
We need to do an exhaustive QA on export goods as our images get tarnished by QA mainly.
I know Government supervision and opening up economy is contradicting but I guess it's needed for a
growing economy particularly for some parties who want to make quick money without realizing the long term prospect.
I am not an economist but these are my heartfelt suggestions which definitely would make my country prosper.
Jai Hind,
Best Regards,
Saikat Saha
Wed Jan 24 05:42:57 2001
Name:Pradeep Gupta
Email:kowonline@usa.net
Suggestions:Sir,
For years we in textile industry have worked in protected economy,our weaving & processing industry is just not competetive. I would request you to scrap customs on used textile machinery & give it a last chance to somewhat modernise .
You see once you scrap customs on machinery, excise will automatically increase. Since there is no good domestic manufacturer of shuttelless weaving looms & specility textile processing machinery, there will be no "swedishi manufacturer will be at loosing end".
Thanks for your time.
Regards
Pradeep
Wed Jan 24 05:55:01 2001
Name:SUDHAKAR
Email:sturumalla@rediff.com
Suggestions:HOUSE BUILDING SECTOR SHOULD BE GIVEN DUE TAX EXEMPTION
Wed Jan 24 06:00:40 2001
Name:Dattatray Joshi
Email:Sumdat@rediffmail.com
Suggestions:Sir, When is the dream buddget of the then Janasangh & the BJP will be presented
? Why cann't you still enhance the taxable limits of the salaried class who are still carrying the burden of development when the businessmen, professionals can conveniently go scot free creating huge black money & by avoiding to pay taxes.You are still unable to create machinery for those thousands of politicians who have created massive wealth & have not to pay any taxes. Just survey the immense wealth possessed by doctors, lawyers & despite that they are educated they do not issue any receipts to their clients & thus create black money. Why cann't you check this? Why don't you impose higher import duty on consumables which are available in abundance?e.g. sugar, foodgrains, milk etc.
Wed Jan 24 06:07:00 2001
Name:Sanjeev Singhi
Email:sansinghi@yahoo.com
Suggestions:Resource allocation to bring R&D, & Engineering designs/patents etc to produce goods & services for commercial markets - private sector, export markets. The profits could be reinvested into the same fund.
Wed Jan 24 06:14:20 2001
Name:jamalabad
Email:mjamalabad@hotmail.com
Suggestions:Whatever you do ,keep the country's interest at heart.pl,not another dabhol!
Wed Jan 24 06:14:51 2001
Name:arun khanna
Email:arun2@readrite.com
Suggestions:1.reduce budget supports for the states. Send direct money 1000 ruppees per house hold to the people of orrisa,bihar,and the states in the same shape. It will help them to buy rice and wheat which govt. is trying to sell at price b"below poverty line".
if you will give money to states for the development...it is not reaching. with direct money to homes, people will start buying food and will help you to procure more farm output. and will help FCI to cleanup there storage.
2) all the money spend on fighting droughts and femines never reach to the masses and will end up with corrupt "TEHSILDARS OR DC'and result into black money in their pockets.
You are fighting
"structured poverty". Which means that who needs food, can not buy and who has money
can not spend or can participate in "demand creation".
So only practical way
is to create ways and means to put money into pockets of needy directly. It will help a lot in North east to contain unrest. Once people are not hungry, they will not fell in to wrong hands..ISI. Think of it...your options are limited.
Good luck
Wed Jan 24 06:17:24 2001
Name:Professor K. K. Nigam
Email:profkknigam@vsnl.com
Suggestions:The Public Provident Fund Scheme should be for a period of 15 years or till attainment of the age of 65 years of the account holder i.e. the entire money available in the account should be payable on the completion of 65 year of age of the account holder or his nominee.
Wed Jan 24 06:20:13 2001
Name:Pradeesh Thomas
Email:Pradeeshthomas@yahoo.com
Suggestions:I am an NRI, I am really looking for the improvement of India. India is developing rapidly and we need more attention to Infrastructure development. The areas we need to concentrate is the development of Roads, Telephone sector, Internet Backbone bandwidth, transportation & tourism.
If we are failed to do a rapid development plan, we will fail to get the result and our share will go to other countries like China & Russia.
So we need a strong and speedy development plan.
For make this happen try to privitise more sectors
Wed Jan 24 06:20:22 2001
Name:sharad rahangdale
Email:sharad_dr@rediffmail.com
Suggestions:Kindly remove surcharge on Incom Tax from salaried class
Wed Jan 24 06:21:00 2001
Name:rajeswara rao
Email:gfpltape@yahoo.com
Suggestions:SSI exemption is now covered for certain items. But it should be covered for all manufacturing items for SSI units
Wed Jan 24 06:25:01 2001
Name:Murugesan
Email:esteem69@hotmail.com
Suggestions:Dear Sir,
Every time while budget comes, each and every one is expecting some benefits. At that same time not bothering about the wealth of the country. Of course saying this is very easy then doing. Why this happened, there is no difference between the person who is also thinking about nation wealth and unlawful person. Government says, we are care about the poor people and poorest people. So we are putting additional tax burden on rich people. This may be useful at the maximum to attract vote banks (that also not true as per my belief). But it never helps to encourage the people who really work hard and give a big money as tax. It ends up with cheating government and grows block money or pay tax legally and become join with poor community. Block money really has huge chain of illegal activities, to keep that money lot of illegal activity continues in different way, which finally destroy the nation in so many ways. Block is increasing day by day, because there is no difference between legal tax payer and who cheating the government to avoid tax pay by using thousand intelligent way. Why? There is a big question arise from most of them. What benefit government gives to legally tax paying citizens. If you are saying that government gives great infrastructure, school, medical facilities, and etc. Yes it is true, but there is no difference between any citizens. So respectable citizen get nothing. Capitalism does not recommend this concept, it supports who works well and hard let them enjoy the benefit and who does not like to work, then let them face the result.
Raising any issue is very easy, that is most of the politicians are doing now a days, but no one providing right solution, because it is very difficult. I do suggest a way here to encourage the legally tax paying citizen for the purpose of robust India.
SUGGESTION:
1. Instead of reducing the income tax for individual or family, deduct certain percentage for his social security from the tax. For example, 30 % tax means, ( 5% for social security + 25 % actual tax). This social security can be used after his/her retirement benefit. To boost and encourage this, government may contribute certain percentage.
2. Take strong action against cheating elements.
3. Every cash transaction should be legal in each level (have to reduce the cash transaction and insist to use checks. Credit card also a best way to keep track the expenses, so government should encourage this activities)
4.
Implementing this suggestion will be advantage in several ways, among them
1. Encourage tax payers, who pays more tax he will get more benefit and vise versa.
2. Differentiating tax payer and non tax payer.
3. Providing a security on their elder days.
4. Keeping this money for other development and so many other ways
5. Encouraging expending capability
6. All the commercial shops should be register not exclusion for any business
7. Each sales should be recorded and each customer should get receipt
Thank you for your consideration,
Note: I don’t know, whether this mail reach its destiny or not, but as a citizen I am suggesting this on dreaming wealthy India. Jai hind!
Wed Jan 24 06:27:09 2001
Name:Laxminarayan
Email:lg_kulkarni@yahoo.com
Suggestions:Bring in Private players in Aviation Sectot, Railways and other Transport System.
Take up building Highways and other infrastructure as the highest priority for next 10 years for the Government and Private Sector
Do something for farming community that really benefits them by providing good infrastructure for them to sell, and market their crops at reasonable price
Widen the Tax base and be wise when you are dealing with customs tax
Wed Jan 24 06:39:08 2001
Name:VKBajpai
Email:coral@nagpur.dot.net.in
Suggestions:hoping for budget for farmers and new entrepruiners.
Wed Jan 24 06:46:13 2001
Name:Rony Joseph
Email:ronnykj@yahoo.com
Suggestions:Please provide money in the budget for building and maintaining pubic toilets. We can design rockets and light combat aircraft, but the majority of people in India defecate in the open. No government has so far considered the lack of sanitary facilities as a problem. This is not the situation in other third world countries or China.
Wed Jan 24 06:54:14 2001
Name:Mike
Email:mike@dcipl.com
Suggestions:You should cocentrate more on the weeker sector and the tax paying section get them more benifits and use the money justifible and show the use of the money thus encouraging tax payers and non tax payers to pay taxes.
Wed Jan 24 06:56:44 2001
Name:Reena Unni
Email:runni@technovox.com
Suggestions:Dear Finance Minister;
Please consult right person with right knowledge and experience in deciding various aspects of Budget for it will effect entire mass in India. If it does good for them they will remember you and bless you for all the good, else you will be remembered and cursed for all the wrong happening. Decide you want to be remembered as what. See how China, Singapore, Malasia, and western countries are progressing and take India in right path of economic development. May God Give you good sense of judgement to decide fate of many.
Wed Jan 24 07:00:54 2001
Name:SOMASEKHAR V.K
Email:SOMASEKHARVK@rediff.com
Suggestions:The Salaried class has been the worst neglected. Suggest raising of the limit and Standard deductions. If not atleast modification of some of the obnoxious clause such as taxing of Medical benefits, Pragmatic Conveyance allowance(Not Rs 800/- at present for all vehicles and all distances?) Modification of LTA-removal of block period? Enhancement of Educational allowance exemption (Now at Rs 50/- per child???)Exemption of HRA for Own house occupation. etc.
We would request you to make minor correcions to make IT meaningful rather than dogmatic.
Sir, We represented these points to you during your visit to Bangalore in July before the elections. Hope you will consider this.
With warm regards and thanking you,
SOMASEKHAR V.K
Wed Jan 24 07:03:40 2001
Name:sanjeev chakravarty
Email:sanjeev22@yahoo.com
Suggestions:Keep the prosperity of the IT industry. Relax the laws that will facilitate small investors in this industry especially laws that will invite more NRI investment.
Sincerely,
Sanjeev Chakravarty
San Jose,CA(USA)
Wed Jan 24 07:05:07 2001
Name:Dev Shetty
Email:dev_shetty_99@yahoo.com
Suggestions:To make budget guideline should be based on simple fact:
70% of Indians are dependent on agriculture. Hence 70% of budget, resources, time should be spent on this neglected sector.
Wed Jan 24 07:06:09 2001
Name:R.V.Narasimhan
Email:n_ravoori@yahoo.com
Suggestions:1.reduce dividend tax or eliminate it altogether.Good for the investments in the long run and what you lose individend tax will be more than made uo from excise and sales taxes.
2.Reduce direct and indirect taxes to kick off production and economy.
3.Liberalise at afster pace than at present in dribs and drabs.
4.Boost international trade.
5Make people work harder and increase production, spending
6>wage levels in industry except software are vey low.these should increase to prevent brain drain.
7.WE ARE WORKING MORE FOR FOREIGNCOMPANIES THAN FOR OUR OWN.SEE HOW usa WELCOMES FOREIGNERS AND SEE THE WAGES THEY GET AND SEE HOW OUR Indians work abroad and in India.It will be a eyeopener.
Wed Jan 24 07:13:16 2001
Name:ASHUTOSH SHAH
Email:AVS82@REDIFFMAIL.COM
Suggestions:RESPECTED FM,
SIR, PLEASE GIVE SOME SOPS TO THE BIOSCIENCE INDUSTRY IN YOUR BUDGET.
THANKING YOU,
ASHUTOSH
Wed Jan 24 07:46:25 2001
Name:Ravi Rajasekharuni
Email:ravirajasekharuni@hotmail.com
Suggestions:Dear Mr.Sinha,
I request that Budget should include infrasturcture for Education in villages, Health , Roads and Communications. Also budget should look at developing systems and standards in the areas of Health, Education, Transportation, Sanitation, Irrigation. Budget also should allocate funds for monitoring various programs on regular basis. Information Technology and Internet can be used to monitor progress and effectiveness of projects/schems/systems. Using Self Service
based Information Systems using WEB interfaces can be effective as people will be responsible for inputting/updating data directly using internet thus eliminating middle men and buerocracy.
Wed Jan 24 07:50:31 2001
Name:Abhijit Ghosh
Email:abhijit@cyberway.com.sg
Suggestions:Sir,
If you need to attract FDIs, you must reduce the corporate tax rate to the level of at least 30%. It will also widen the tax base and help you to generate more revenue. Also set up an authority who should have the power of considering applications and granting tax incentives - so access to tax incentives should not be automatic - I think you are trying to move in that direction only.
I take this opportunity to wish you all the best in your future enfeavours.
Wed Jan 24 07:56:22 2001
Name:T.Chrian
Email:tc16605@yahoo.com
Suggestions:Hon.Sir,
TDS ON BANK INT.INCOME OVER RS.10000/-be abolished.since it is
counterproductive.assessees distribute the fdrs to number of banks as per their needs,thus increasing workload of the banks and other associated services,WITHOUT BRINGING IN ANY BENEFITS TO THE TAX REVENUE.
Tax-payers, in anycase pay their advance and final taxes so why this mode of collections. which the banks will agree ,does not work in practice.
please give this matter ur kind attention.my suggestion is to withdraw TDS or apply from the first rupee
of interest earned.
Wed Jan 24 08:01:01 2001
Name:Digambar A. Nagarkar
Email:kd_nag@rediffmail.com
Suggestions:Dear vRespected F.M,
Namashkar This suggestion is for two following things:
1) Make tax slabs uniform for the salaried class.
2) Take up divestments on top priority which will reduce the deficit and in turn will relieve the salaried class of any additional burden.
Thanks & Regards.
D.A.Nagarkar
Wed Jan 24 08:02:24 2001
Name:vijay
Email:sapporo@rediffmail.com
Suggestions:Dear Sir,
I would request you to kindly reduce the subsidies as these are costing a huge burden on the fiscal deficit.
Secondly, can the government implement a scheme to promote vehicles running on natural gas and other eco freindly fuel systems. As they say any reform has to begin at home, so atleast as a primary step can the government start using gas based vehicles for its machinery.
thank you
vijay
Wed Jan 24 08:02:53 2001
Name:Rami reddy, Singapore
Email:ramvl@mailcity.com
Suggestions:Dear Honorable Finance Minister,
Kindly do the best to increase India Exports.
Wed Jan 24 08:07:32 2001
Name:Dr.Ravi Nagaprasad
Email:yerramillir@rediffmail.com
Suggestions:Sir,
This budget should help to increase the FI.As well as it should help to promote the devolopment of indian industreis.It should focus the rural devolopment.Eventhough there is fast urbanisation rural devolopment is very slow.The budget should facilitate the production of power,Agriculture.And should not give over importance toIT.
Wed Jan 24 08:08:53 2001
Name:vijaya
Email:thej@onebox.com
Suggestions:The Honourable Finance Minister of India,
Pls dont depend on gulf for oil which is taking away most of our foreign currency.
Thanks
vijaya
singapore
Wed Jan 24 08:10:27 2001
Name:Makarand
Email:makarp@hotmail.com
Suggestions:Make taxes easy to file, and understand. Today I want to be fully complient with my tax filling requirements but the requirements are not easily availbe, and they are very complex.
Wed Jan 24 08:18:42 2001
Name:K K Chandarashekaran
Email:chandarashekaran@hotmail.com
Suggestions:Dear Sir,
The bottom line problem in our Indian economy is the tall population and its non-stop rapid growth. Unless we find a true solution for this problem we are not going to head anyway big in the days to come. I request our Honourable Finance Minister to address this issue very seriously with a definite solution supported by adequate financial budgets and necessities.
Thanks,
K K Chandarashekaran
Wed Jan 24 08:20:28 2001
Name:ajay kumar agrawal
Email:ajaykumaragrawal@yahoo.com
Suggestions:1) increase saving limit
2. do some justification rto salary class people who have just white money
tax rich farmerers
Wed Jan 24 08:25:30 2001
Name:RS ANANDA
Email:rsananda@rediff.com
Suggestions:H'BLE FM
Please give prominance to rural development by protecting farmers from the WTO regime also give prominance to education.just give a look to the number of engg. colleges in karnataka.maharastra,tn,ap.
Wed Jan 24 08:28:12 2001
Name:Atul Ganatra
Email:atul_ganatra@hotmail.com
Suggestions:
Dear Finance Minister,
I would like to request you to positively and sincerely emphasize on the following issues in the forthcoming budget :
# Assign the clear and attainable target dates to the disinvestment proposals of various PSUs and make the path clear for the disinvestment. This is one of the most important aspects to be taken care for our economy.
# Reduce Oil Pool Deficit and the overall fiscal deificit at any cost other than hiking the oil prices and increasing the direct taxes.
# Can we have some other innovative measures to cover the populace with black money under the income tax net and dig the black money out. e.g. Block any car on the road and ask the Carwallah to produce his IT Return. Scrutinisations and Audits at Micro levels also may help us to dig out enormous black money.
I hope you would ponder upon this suggestions positively.
Warm Regards,
Jai Hind.
Wed Jan 24 08:28:31 2001
Name:Atul Ganatra
Email:atul_ganatra@hotmail.com
Suggestions:
Dear Finance Minister,
I would like to request you to positively and sincerely emphasize on the following issues in the forthcoming budget :
# Assign the clear and attainable target dates to the disinvestment proposals of various PSUs and make the path clear for the disinvestment. This is one of the most important aspects to be taken care for our economy.
# Reduce Oil Pool Deficit and the overall fiscal deificit at any cost other than hiking the oil prices and increasing the direct taxes.
# Can we have some other innovative measures to cover the populace with black money under the income tax net and dig the black money out. e.g. Block any car on the road and ask the Carwallah to produce his IT Return. Scrutinisations and Audits at Micro levels also may help us to dig out enormous black money.
I hope you would ponder upon this suggestions positively.
Warm Regards,
Jai Hind.
Wed Jan 24 08:34:11 2001
Name:omprasad
Email:om@yahoo.com
Suggestions:reduce petroleum rates
Wed Jan 24 08:34:11 2001
Name:omprasad
Email:om@yahoo.com
Suggestions:reduce petroleum rates
Wed Jan 24 08:34:12 2001
Name:omprasad
Email:om@yahoo.com
Suggestions:reduce petroleum rates
Wed Jan 24 08:34:42 2001
Name:S.N.Damodharan
Email:sndamu@rediffmail.com
Suggestions:Surcharge on personal income tax should be reduced and standard deduction of salaried people should be increased atleast to Rs.50000/
Wed Jan 24 08:35:22 2001
Name:Srinivas Rao
Email:karuturi_srinivas@rediff.com
Suggestions:In the Budget the policy will faour of formers. Because of at present Farmers are jacing many problems mainly (i)reduction of prices increase in Fertliser prices and Pestisides Rates. former canot servive the Socity.
and Most of the formers are Devrsifying the some other filed.
when comparing the food grains, When former selling the prices will less. and same products in market is very Heigh.
And Same way inflation rate is heigh.
you must Controll the these Difference.
Wed Jan 24 08:38:10 2001
Name:P M Ravindran
Email:pmravindran@rediffmal.com
Suggestions:tax slabs should be changed as follows:
Upto Rs 10,000.00 pm no tax,
From 10,000 to 20,000 pm 10%,
20,000 to 30,000 - 15%
30,000 to 40,000 - 20%
40,000 to 50,000 - 25%
>50,000 - 30%
The loss of revenuw can be made up by taxing the big fishes who are now getting away due to inadequate effort on the part of tax enforcing agencies.
Wed Jan 24 08:38:16 2001
Name:hitesh
Email:hitude@rediff.com
Suggestions:lower taxes please ,make housing affordable for bombayites(lower house loans interest rates)
Wed Jan 24 08:38:30 2001
Name:gslakshmi
Email:gslakme123@rediffmail.com
Suggestions: honble finance minister
for woman reservation
do favour to the woman
Wed Jan 24 08:38:54 2001
Name:Vasudev Rao
Email:rao@skinternational.com
Suggestions:Sir,
Information Technology is definitely the industry which will make India a super power in the next couple of years. It is our humble request that maximum possible tax exemptions & benefits are extended. Volume is the name of the game here & software industry alone will definitely make India Rich & proud.
Wed Jan 24 08:39:20 2001
Name:Kumaraswamy M.S
Email:ksmulae@yahoo.com
Suggestions:Sir,
You are burdening only employees by high rate of taxes, Hence please reduce the tax burden.
Wed Jan 24 08:39:24 2001
Name:Prabahar.K
Email:prabahar_k@mailcity.com
Suggestions:Dear Mr. Yashwant Sinha,
Continue your good work. Increase the funding for Infrastructure development so that our nation can develop. Also, make sure that private sectors are made to participate in infrastructure development and maintenance so that the nation as well as the private sector who is involving in infrastructure development gets benefitted. I firmly believe that Government alone cannot develop Infrastructure fully without help of any others. Hope you'll look into my suggestion.
regards,
Prabahar.K
Wed Jan 24 08:42:13 2001
Name:Yogendra
Email:yogendra.arya@wipro.com
Suggestions:Make the Income tax structure moderate for sailaried class, make same for Business class also
Wed Jan 24 08:44:27 2001
Name:Sunilkumar
Email:sunilgct@sify.com
Suggestions:Hello sir,
Every time when we look at the budget almost all prices of the day 2 day commodities go up on one hand on the other to maintain the increased budget the salaries must also go up equally that doesn't happen.so must of us in the lower middle class suffer.So please consider this , ITS a very HUMBLE request FROM A TRUE DESI
Wed Jan 24 08:47:17 2001
Name:D.K. Banerji
Email:dkbanerjee@bajajauto.co.in
Suggestions:1. The limit of savings allowed for rebate for salried class under section 88 of IT must beincreased to Rs. 1 lac from the existing Rs 60,000/- in a year. This is excluding the Rs 20,000/- allowed in the infrsstructure bonds.
2. The surcharge should be levied on IT payer who have salary of Rs. 5 lacs abd above.
3. The bands for different of income tax should be broadened i.e 10% tax should be from Rs 60,000 to say Rs 1,00,000/- 20% from Rs 1 lac to Rs 2.5 lac and so on.
4. Continue and enhance the incentives for exports in view of increasing competition form China in all sectors particuclarly in 2 and 3 wheeler sectors.
Wed Jan 24 08:48:13 2001
Name:pallav gupta
Email:pallavg@hotmail.com
Suggestions:reaspectable mr. sinha
my suggestion is that the govt only focus on infrastructure and public utility services and leave everything else to the pvt sect.
Wed Jan 24 08:48:44 2001
Name:Sachin Shivapur
Email:shivapurs@yahoo.com
Suggestions:* Reduction of taxes for IT people
* Allow more cell phone service providers in each state to increase competion.
* Follow the Singaporean model of globalization which helps the common man
Wed Jan 24 08:48:56 2001
Name:ameen
Email:zameel2000@yahoo.com
Suggestions:Respected Sir,
could you get me a job please sir.
Wed Jan 24 08:49:14 2001
Name:shivaramayya
Email:skalchar@hotmail.com
Suggestions:DearYashwantgi,
Please bring an awareness strict rules with people to keep the big cities clean by alloting some budget for the concerned states for stepwise cleaning
Indian citizen
shivaramayya
Wed Jan 24 08:49:32 2001
Name:Amit
Email:amit400@excite.com
Suggestions:Mr Minister,
When can we have an India, where there is a some civility in public places, some kind of traffic rules on the roads,roads with road signs,a helping police folice force,somewhat educated ministers, some kind of security in our lives. When? Is it asking too much. Do our politicians realise we look like an ungovernable anarchy.Do our politicians really try to better our lives.
Wed Jan 24 08:49:46 2001
Name:Barani Senthil
Email:sbarani@rediffmail.com
Suggestions:Dear Mr. Sinha
Please look out for more privatization, i personally feel the govt. must have Immigration, defence, Police and internal country related departments under us, and privatise, claiming 40% taxation with no. govt. holiding will make us very successful.
As far as budget is concerned pls. look for the development of poor and agriculture, all we need is a green revolution and integration of rivers nationwide.
Have a great year Mr. Sinha, HATS OFF TO YOUR GOODSELF and respected PM.
Rgds
Barani
GM - IT
Sri Aur Corp Inc.,
Wed Jan 24 08:53:12 2001
Name:Tarun Kalra
Email:tarunkalra_tk@yahoo.co.in
Suggestions:-Increase the rebate limit u/s 88 of the Income tax Act to atleast Rs. 120,000/=
-Reduce tax rates, the maximum slab for a salaried employee should be 20%
Wed Jan 24 08:53:21 2001
Name:Vijaya Sai Meka
Email:saimeka@rediffmail.com
Suggestions:Sir, Please give industry status to construction industry in real terms. Even though we are helping in reducing the shortage of houses in the country, we are not supported well by governments. The first and foremost important thing is extending financial assistance at reasonable interest rates by commercial banks. At present they are treating this as non priority sector. We are facing problems in raising finances as this industry is capital intensive industry which needs lots of inputs. We hope a positive and favourable action from your side.
Thanking You Sir,
with regards
Vijaya Sai Meka
Wed Jan 24 08:55:30 2001
Name:Tarun Kalra
Email:tarunkalra_tk@yahoo.co.in
Suggestions:-Increase the rebate limit u/s 88 of the Income tax Act to atleast Rs. 120,000/=
-Reduce tax rates, the maximum slab for a salaried employee should be 20%
Wed Jan 24 08:55:37 2001
Name:Bharat M. Pawar
Email:bmpawar@rediffmail.com
Suggestions:age of central/state government employee must be 58 years.
Wed Jan 24 08:57:50 2001
Name:HEMANT BHAYANI
Email:hemantbhayani@yahoo.com
Suggestions:Hello Sir,
Prices of post-card should be 0.50 paise & income tax should be exepted upto income of Rs.75000/-, 10% for income between Rs.75000/- to Rs.100000/-. These 2 suggestions I have. Thank u.
Wed Jan 24 09:03:37 2001
Name:LAXMAN FULZELE
Email:fulzele@rediffmail.com
Suggestions:1.bring agriculturist intax payer rang by putting condition of holding irregated land by more than 5 acres and dry land by more than 10 acres
2take the growth potential/natural resources in to condersition of that region,develop industries for convesion of raw material to finish good products .two things will be solved unemploymentand,regional development.
3corruption is halting our growth and quality.make stringent rule for punishing guilty
4 most of PSU is running in losses due to corrupt managementand not due to labour force.they take advantages to due to corrupt management.punish bad management and reward efficient.andmake compulsary to10% more sales yhan the previous year sales
5many youth are graduated from villages but they donot get any job because they can not pay heavy donation/bribe,no influence at any places.do some thing exclusively for village unemplyed garduate youth
5improve infracture in villages and encourage for smallscale industry delevopment based on local resources
Wed Jan 24 09:04:43 2001
Name:LAXMAN FULZELE
Email:fulzele@rediffmail.com
Suggestions:1.bring agriculturist intax payer rang by putting condition of holding irregated land by more than 5 acres and dry land by more than 10 acres
2take the growth potential/natural resources in to condersition of that region,develop industries for convesion of raw material to finish good products .two things will be solved unemploymentand,regional development.
3corruption is halting our growth and quality.make stringent rule for punishing guilty
4 most of PSU is running in losses due to corrupt managementand not due to labour force.they take advantages to due to corrupt management.punish bad management and reward efficient.andmake compulsary to10% more sales yhan the previous year sales
5many youth are graduated from villages but they donot get any job because they can not pay heavy donation/bribe,no influence at any places.do some thing exclusively for village unemplyed garduate youth
5improve infracture in villages and encourage for smallscale industry delevopment based on local resources
Wed Jan 24 09:07:21 2001
Name:A K Narendranath
Email:aknarendranath@yahoo.com
Suggestions:1) Lower personal as well as corporate income tax
2)Remove double taxation of dividend as this demand has been pending for far too long
3)As past utterances on privatisation and down sizing of govt. continue to be nothing more than empty promises, we don't want to hear any thing more from him on this, but would like to see concrete action and not a further set of empty promises.
4)Grant a 15 year tax holiday for all infrastructure investments,provided, he is serious on infrastructure development
5)Drastic measures against Ministries that exceed their limits on expenditure
6)Remove all taxes, duties, surcharges, imposts or any other burden imposed on the common man during and after the Kargill crisis. Kargill is now history and these imposts have no reason to exist.
7)Impose restrictions on the use and purchase of vehicles and cell phones by Govt. officials.
8)Speed up use of computers, internet and email so that communications is much faster and cheaper. The need for travel by bureaucrats will get reduced and Govts. travel expenditure will go down.
9)Increase outlay for education, both at the school as well as university level so that the future citizens of this country are an educated lot and not an illiterate lot.
10)Help is to be extende to farmers on account of the vagaries of weather like droughts and floods and the fast changing scenario on account of WTO committments.
Wed Jan 24 09:11:04 2001
Name:Krishna Ravikumar
Email:krishnavaasudeva@usa.net
Suggestions:Sir,
Liquor and Tobacco manufacturers have been the gainers in the budgets
so far. The losers are the end users of these products, because they lose
health, money, vigour and efficiency. The other losers are the rest of the
common folks, because they end up paying heavy direct and indirect taxes
to compensate for the taxes not increased to required levels in these two
giant categories. Something has to be done on this in this budget.
Wed Jan 24 09:14:30 2001
Name:Harish Parwani
Email:hmp213@stern.nyu.edu
Suggestions:how the finance minister can put an end to all corruption in the country?
Ans: A simple law prohiding the use of cash money for any transaction over Rs.100, as well as prohibition of any individual carrying total cash on him over Rs. 1000 /- put put a straight end to all black money in the country, and thus an end to corruption.
This will also get increase the use of credit card and banking services in the country giving more employment.
Moreover, being a finance bill, it does not have to go to the Rajya SAbha, and can be approved in the Lok Sabha itself.
Thanks and Regards
Harish Parwani
Wed Jan 24 09:14:53 2001
Name:Venkatesh Chittari
Email:c_venkatesh@yahoo.com
Suggestions:Dear Finance Minister,
I want to share my thoughts about the Indian Postal Service. Though it is one of the best Postal departments in the world, it lacks the punch like that of the United States Postal services (USPS). USPS is the largest GOvernment undertaking in the US and it generates one of the best profits every year. It is run with great autonomy.
Why can't the Indian government give autonomy to the Indian Postal department and turn it around to make it the best postal departments in the world. It has the strength to be so.
I beleive that given autonomy, the Indian postal services can come through its sluggish performances.
Thanks
Venkatesh
Wed Jan 24 09:18:28 2001
Name:S.P.Damodaran
Email:damospd@usa.net
Suggestions:Dear Sir,
The present tax structure is too much outdated. It takes away the large chunk of the income from the Salaried class. There is an urgent need to restructure the tax limits so that salaried class may get some relief. The loss in revenues can be more than compensated by concentrating efforts to collect taxes from business class properly
Regards
Damodaran
Wed Jan 24 09:18:28 2001
Name:Prabhavati Deochake
Email:ardmilsvy@rediffmail.com
Suggestions:Dear Sir,
You will be presenting the budget for the fourth time.Kindly see that duties(custom/excise} are further lowered on computers so that lower middle class people can afford to by computers with MMX technolgy at affordeable prices in the range of Rs.10000 to 20000 if the Govt has the will to make this country as asuper IT power.
Wed Jan 24 09:18:43 2001
Name:shailesh
Email:shail_brahm@rediffmail.com
Suggestions:Please don't increase inflation. How can live the common men.
Wed Jan 24 09:18:57 2001
Name:chander mohan
Email:chanderrr@HOTMAIL.com
Suggestions:SALARY CLASS PEOPLE ARE SUFFERING A LOT GIVE SOME TAX RELIEF TO THEM GIVE MORE INCENTIVE ON SAVING.
Wed Jan 24 09:19:56 2001
Name:K VENUGOPAL
Email:kundetivenu@rediffmail.com
Suggestions:His excellency,
Being a employee of PSU and being one of the Tax Payers, I humbly request you to kindly give due consideration this time to we employees to have a relief. We have been under constant pressure by paying all sorts of taxes and the take home pay is slashing down like any thing and we are at hand to mouth to meet our minimum requirements. Add to that electricity bills and now the phone rentals and what not, every price is going up and up but not the salary to supplement. Therefore, if your good office look into this aspect and consider our feelings enhancing the Standard deductions upto 40,000/- will definitely a shot in arm.
With regards,
K VENUGOPAL
Wed Jan 24 09:20:01 2001
Name:shailesh
Email:shail_brahm@rediffmail.com
Suggestions:decrease the incometax rate.
Wed Jan 24 09:29:51 2001
Name:Hemraj
Email:hemrajs@bsil.com
Suggestions:The prices of commodities are always on the rise. However the limit and the slabs of taxable income have never moved with time. Its time that some relief is given to Salaried Income people to meet the rising prices.
Wed Jan 24 09:36:56 2001
Name:abbas
Email:abbriz@yahoo.com
Suggestions:pls. make a low budget for the yr 2001.
Wed Jan 24 09:37:59 2001
Name:Amitabh Sinha
Email:metlok@nagpur.dot.net.in
Suggestions:Sir,
1.Last year saw many notifications slipped in after the budget day in the area of Central Excise. Many of these effected SSI. It is suggested that let there be a fixed date/dates on which amendments are notified so that one can watch out for changes on those dates. The departmental people normally do not inform and only take advantage of any lapses due to mid year changes which might/normally escape a small industry owner who after the budget gets down to the nitty gritty of his/her business.
2. In my opinion and experiance the most misused and trouble-some piece of paper in interstate transaction is the C- form.
- it is normally never given by the customer on time.
- the companies go sick or close down resulting in the seller having to make up the difference in tax during assesments which are held a few years later as a rule.
- Probably a very small percentage of business is conducted at full %.The expense involved in administering might be higher than the differential tax generated.
It is suggested that C form be scapped and that selling or buying to inter-state registered dealers to be at a fixed % of tax.
Wed Jan 24 09:38:09 2001
Name:Sumanth Sharma K.R.
Email:sumanth83@yahoo.com
Suggestions:Sir,
Pre meditated free gifting of Miss World and Miss Universe crowns to India
have come very handy to domestic and international cosmetic makers, who are
dumping plethora of these products in the market. Since most of these stuffs
are reachable only by the elite and the affluent class, it will be very ideal and
timely to increase taxes on these products by substantial degree.
I would request you, Sir, to look into the interests of the student masses, who
are paying enormous amounts to their text books and other stationery items.
It will be prudent to reduce their burden.
Foreign and domestic TV private channels are indulging in telecasting number
of anti Indian cultural programmes, completely devoid of educative elements.
Such channels should be heavily taxed. Similarly movies, having same ingredients,
should also be taxed more.
Wed Jan 24 09:38:36 2001
Name:shankerbhai patel
Email:shankerbhai.patel@tatainfotech.com
Suggestions:Respeced Sir.Pls increase alimit of income tax limit for handicaps more than1.5 lakhs of annual income who having 50% of handicap
certifacate from authosed Hospitals of govt.Because how those people suffer to earn with hardship of their life and do a relief to those people and bless their familes and belongs.I hope u must think over this matter.wish u all the Best.
Wed Jan 24 09:39:31 2001
Name:RAJEEV. C
Email:rajeevc@rediffmail.com
Suggestions:Increase the exemption limit under section 88 for personal Income Tax payers to 100,000 including infrastructure bonds
Make surcharge on Tax to 10% for all income groups.
Wed Jan 24 09:42:05 2001
Name:Hardik Mehta
Email:hardikm@rediffmail.com
Suggestions:Couple of years back, VDIS was the scheme that was launched to disclose the unaccounted money and pay the tax. Similar scheme to be launched for the Corrupt persons (including politicians) to disclose the wealth and give some amount to govt (say 30%)and make financial year 2002 as a corruption free year. This will not only generate revenue but also will decrease the deficit of the country. I know it is going to be difficult task, but not impossible. We can give a try for making financial year 2002 as a corruption free year.
Wed Jan 24 09:42:34 2001
Name:L.S.Sekhar
Email:lssekhar@hotmail.com
Suggestions:1)It's high time tax slabs are restructured i.e., Increase 10% slab from existing (Rs.50000 - 60000) to (Rs.50000-100000) , 20% slab from(Rs.60000 - 150000) to (Rs.100000 - 250000) and 30% slab above Rs.250000/.By doing this small allowances can be done away with and taxed except HRA,Medical,Conveyanceand Eucation.Children Education allowance may be increased to atleast Rs.10000/year.
By doing this FM will be a saviour for sincere taxpaying salaried and middle class people.
2)Increase tax saving limit from Rs80000 to 100000.Increase the limit for ELSS from Rs.10000 to atleast Rs.20000
3)Remove Sugar from PDS as it does not help even poorer sections significantly and removes lot of admin hassles from civil supplies department.
4)Tighten the tax net by bringing in all non tax paying people (with nominal rates)like kirana merchants,telephone/Internet Kiosk operators etc.,
Wed Jan 24 09:46:13 2001
Name:n.shyam sunder
Email:nshyam_sunder@hotmail.com
Suggestions:India basically a agriculture driven economy, please concentrate more on agriculture based industries.
increase the tax base for more revenue receipts.
Wed Jan 24 09:48:45 2001
Name:s.k. raman
Email:sk.raman@tatainfotech.com
Suggestions:1. to remove the free electricity to RICH farmers
2. the impose a marginal tax on the agricultural income of RICH farmers (similar to the tax on rich salaried class !)
Wed Jan 24 10:10:37 2001
Name:Parameshwaran R. Iyer
Email:iyer_param@rediffmail.com
Suggestions:23rd January 2001
Respected Shri Yashwant Sinhaji,
It is a privilege to send you my suggestions through this forum.
I shall be grateful if you could kindly rationalise Basic Import Duties on Raw Materials, Intermediate Goods & Finished Goods during this Budget Exercise.
For example, Indian Electrical Industry is currently facing an anomalous situation in which its major inputs Copper Rods/Cathodes bear a Basic Import Duty burden of 35% ad valorem whereas most of the Industry’s products (eg. Machine Tools, Transformers, Generators, Static & Rotary Converters, Motors etc) attract only 25% Basic Import Duty.
There shall not be any significant impact on Govt. Revenue by the reduction of Import Duty on Copper Cathodes/Rods as imports thereof have tapered off sharply in recent times & even these small quantities are generally restricted to the various Duty-Free Export Promotion schemes.
In order to compete vigorously under the W.T.O. System of which India is a constituent & so as to perform honourably versus environments like China (of which much has been appearing in the press in recent times), the strong manufacturing countries in South East Asia, & even some SAARC countries like Nepal & Sri Lanka who levy import tariffs at rates much lower than India’s, Indian Industry must kindly be provided its inputs at international prices in order that it not lose its industrial competitiveness. Hence, Indian Customs Duties on industrial inputs, which are relatively very high as on today, need to be brought down as soon as possible to the levels prevailing in these abovementioned environments.
As on today, Input Costs can account for anywhere upto around 80% or so of the total cost of a large proportion of electrical items & hence unless Indian Customs Duties are rationalised/brought down as abovestated, even efficient Indian Electrical Industry will be poorly placed to survive the next few years, leading consequently to negative effects on employment, Govt.Revenue etc.
Thanking you,
Yours faithfully,
PARAMESHWARAN R. IYER
Wed Jan 24 10:20:19 2001
Name:Jaisingh K
Email:jaisinghk@usa.net
Suggestions:Dear Mr. Sinha
BJP projected itself to be pro-professionals, made tall claims of increasing IT limits but what you did when you came to power?, You too took the populist stand knowing well that salaried class does not contribute much to your vote bank, you too started playing in hands of big business groups. Even if you can afford to collect 50% of IT from small and big businesses, you can completely eliminate IT for salaried, but instead you have chosen the easiest way. All politicians do so, not your fault after all might is right
thanks a lot
jaisingh
Wed Jan 24 10:22:35 2001
Name:Jagan
Email:jagan_lv@rediffmail.com
Suggestions:1. Expenditures on Gov people especially ministers and members
of the parliment should be reduced. I feel very bad when i see 10 to 15 cars moving
for just one minister, why it is not posible reduce the unwanted expences
which we (poor) people are paying that.
2. There should be tough regulation on business people so that they give bills to all
their transactions.
3. Increase the minimum tax slab from 60,000 to 1.2 lac
4. Increase the savings range from 60,000 to more
Wed Jan 24 10:37:58 2001
Name:M.S.Reddy
Email:reddy_matta@hotmail.com
Suggestions:a)Please restructure the tax slabs as follow
i)10% slab Rs.50000- Rs.100000
ii)20% slab Rs.100000- Rs.250000
iii)30% slab Above Rs.250000
Remove the surcharge on TAX.
b)Increase the limit of tax savings limit Rs.80000 to Rs.100000
c)Increase the educational allowance Rs.10000 per annum.
Wed Jan 24 10:38:27 2001
Name:Krishnakumar Desai
Email:krishnakumar@hotmail.com
Suggestions:The fee for PIO card may please be reduced to 250 $ and 50% concession may be granted to seniors and children up to 18 years old
Wed Jan 24 10:39:34 2001
Name:Rajkumaran
Email:crajkumar@usa.net
Suggestions:Dear Sir,
Wish you all the best
to reduce the fiscal
deficit as much as you
can.
Thanks
Raj
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