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Bakwas. They can’t run business without paying taxes And hide money. They are against Modi because their hawala business does not run easily and if everything becomes cashless they can’t run their corrupt business. That’s the only fear.
For those defending Modi’s work, he had all the prerequisites, an unshakeable mandate to bring in reforms, technological infrastructure to usher in GST, yet he bombed the economy, weakened institutions, even an economy on autopilot would have fared without Modi as PM. As for this interviewee, BJP will dig your grave but you will scream ‘Congress is corrupt’ and jump into it.
The fear that one feels when expressing views on this Govts policies or any comments related to other religion,you get abusive response or threatening calls even from Twitter handlers of Modiji who were invited for TEA WITH PM MODI. I CLOSE MY VIEWS ELSE I GET THREATENED. HOPE I GET A SLEEP TONIGHT.
I too felt suffering due to poor implementation of GST & note Bandi but when I came to know that the collection of direct & indirect taxes has been increased so much,now I am able to see the bright future of this country.. provided MODI government continues for next term otherwise the Congress will put all the collected Texas in NYAY kind of Yojana. I may have many complaints to the government but thinking overall future prospects of our nation I can say that Mr Umang Agarwal opinion is biased and have some personal malafide intention behind it. ANYONE CAN SEE THAT THERE IS NO REAL FEAR BUT AN ARTIFICIAL ONE. EVERYONE LOUDLY MAKING EVERY FALSE STATEMENTS (WHAT THEY WANT) AGAINST MODI BUT STILL CLAIM THERE IS A FEAR -I AM UNABLE TO UNDERSTAND HOW ONE CAN MAKE ALL FALSE ALLEGATION TO THE GOVERNMENT WITH SO MUCH OF FEAR ?
For small businesses things are really bad post demo and GST. Govt has messed it up. GST rates need to be 12%for most products except sinful products. But at the same time corruption has decreased drastically, in IT Dept, GST Dept which was earlier sales tax Dept, Only thing needed is for govt to put most products which are in 18% rate bracket to 12% one and the small businesses would be back with a bang.
I never understood this angst against gst rate…..if we compare any products tax rates in pre gst era n post gst tell me a single good. Whoes tax has increased in fact it has came down from 30percent to 18percent in most of the cases. I think he is questioning 59min loan process without even applying for it. Even my family and frnds are in business and most of them found this process as most easiest way to get loans
I won’t question Mr Agarwal’s motives or the veracity of what he is saying. But, broadly it seems he lacks wisdom to judge long term gains against some short term pains. And there are fallacies. For example, the ‘high GST rate’ of 18 pc, is much less than the sum of all the pre-GST taxes. As for corruption, well, it HAS gone at the top, it will take time to percolate to the bottom. 70 years of bribe taking culture cannot vanish in 5 yes. Please give Modi time. As for lack of funds, the blame is clearly on UPA, which caused indiscriminate lending, leading to NPA issues and consequently, credit crunch. Here again, only some time is needed. My suggestion to Mr Agarwal: please wait for 2-3 years more, you’ll be prospering more than ever before.
But the question to The Print is, what kind of journalism is it to get hold of one person’s opinion and running it as a story. I’m a journalist too. If you get hold of an Agarwal who has this view, I can also get hold of a Gupta or a Sharma who’ll say how great things are under Modi. I indeed know many small businessmen who thank the govt for GST. Very poor journalism, Shekhar.
The Businessman does acknowledge that they have grown fat all these decades by not paying taxes, bribing their way through and Modi has put a brake on it. If his son is merely acting like a trader, then is it Modi’s fault- that’s were all these industrialist have been putting their money anyway – buy cheap goods from China and sell in India.
These guys have become so used to raking in money by bribing and getting their way through contacts in high places that doing a business legally, is proving difficult.
this is how the whole country was working. He is only saying – which bhakts may not understand – that change was forced too suddenly, and GST rates are impossibly high, and highly complicated, due to which he has lost business to the Adanis and the Ambanis who are favored by Modi.
From Social Media messages being forwarded a clear atmosphere of Fear is being generated! Hopefully 24 May will be Golden day for India.
Not one of my businessmen friends has told me that corruption has vanished, or even come down substantially. What may have happened is that when business is down, the flow of rents has decreased. Most of all in real estate, where many fewer new launches of projects are taking place. Taken as a group, businesspersons, barring some whose political / ideological convictions override all else, are the last set of people who would look forward to a second term. Forget the undergraduate remark about Suit boot ki sarkar. Indians can never be smiling if traders / industrialists are scowling.
Shri Vij, I strongly suspect that a lot of your own creative biased exaggerations have gone into writing this article, but I am not surprised! You are what you are. Now that that is settled, please do explain what is this parallel economy which Modi has been trying to throttle? Is this (parallel economy) something which runs in another gallaxy or are you in fact with your usual creative suppression of fact actually referring to the Black Economy? You know the one where people don’t pay any taxes, not by creating accounting but by cold blooded tax evasion?
In Shri Agarwal’s case, he probably bought raw material in black, processed it with stolen electricity , with labour employed off the record, with exploitative wages with no benefits in Dickinsion conditions, no respect for the environment and then sold his goods without paying any sales, excise or any other tax. Of course he probably didn’t pay any income tax too on his earnings. This Shri Vij is what you so pleasantly refer to as the parallel economy and if this illicit economy eventually dies then Bharat will definitely benefit. Yes Shri Agarwal and his ilk will suffer but in this land of karma you have to pay for your sins.
Bakwas. They can’t run business without paying taxes And hide money. They are against Modi because their hawala business does not run easily and if everything becomes cashless they can’t run their corrupt business. That’s the only fear.
For those defending Modi’s work, he had all the prerequisites, an unshakeable mandate to bring in reforms, technological infrastructure to usher in GST, yet he bombed the economy, weakened institutions, even an economy on autopilot would have fared without Modi as PM. As for this interviewee, BJP will dig your grave but you will scream ‘Congress is corrupt’ and jump into it.
The fear that one feels when expressing views on this Govts policies or any comments related to other religion,you get abusive response or threatening calls even from Twitter handlers of Modiji who were invited for TEA WITH PM MODI. I CLOSE MY VIEWS ELSE I GET THREATENED. HOPE I GET A SLEEP TONIGHT.
I too felt suffering due to poor implementation of GST & note Bandi but when I came to know that the collection of direct & indirect taxes has been increased so much,now I am able to see the bright future of this country.. provided MODI government continues for next term otherwise the Congress will put all the collected Texas in NYAY kind of Yojana. I may have many complaints to the government but thinking overall future prospects of our nation I can say that Mr Umang Agarwal opinion is biased and have some personal malafide intention behind it. ANYONE CAN SEE THAT THERE IS NO REAL FEAR BUT AN ARTIFICIAL ONE. EVERYONE LOUDLY MAKING EVERY FALSE STATEMENTS (WHAT THEY WANT) AGAINST MODI BUT STILL CLAIM THERE IS A FEAR -I AM UNABLE TO UNDERSTAND HOW ONE CAN MAKE ALL FALSE ALLEGATION TO THE GOVERNMENT WITH SO MUCH OF FEAR ?
For small businesses things are really bad post demo and GST. Govt has messed it up. GST rates need to be 12%for most products except sinful products. But at the same time corruption has decreased drastically, in IT Dept, GST Dept which was earlier sales tax Dept, Only thing needed is for govt to put most products which are in 18% rate bracket to 12% one and the small businesses would be back with a bang.
I never understood this angst against gst rate…..if we compare any products tax rates in pre gst era n post gst tell me a single good. Whoes tax has increased in fact it has came down from 30percent to 18percent in most of the cases. I think he is questioning 59min loan process without even applying for it. Even my family and frnds are in business and most of them found this process as most easiest way to get loans
I won’t question Mr Agarwal’s motives or the veracity of what he is saying. But, broadly it seems he lacks wisdom to judge long term gains against some short term pains. And there are fallacies. For example, the ‘high GST rate’ of 18 pc, is much less than the sum of all the pre-GST taxes. As for corruption, well, it HAS gone at the top, it will take time to percolate to the bottom. 70 years of bribe taking culture cannot vanish in 5 yes. Please give Modi time. As for lack of funds, the blame is clearly on UPA, which caused indiscriminate lending, leading to NPA issues and consequently, credit crunch. Here again, only some time is needed. My suggestion to Mr Agarwal: please wait for 2-3 years more, you’ll be prospering more than ever before.
But the question to The Print is, what kind of journalism is it to get hold of one person’s opinion and running it as a story. I’m a journalist too. If you get hold of an Agarwal who has this view, I can also get hold of a Gupta or a Sharma who’ll say how great things are under Modi. I indeed know many small businessmen who thank the govt for GST. Very poor journalism, Shekhar.
The Businessman does acknowledge that they have grown fat all these decades by not paying taxes, bribing their way through and Modi has put a brake on it. If his son is merely acting like a trader, then is it Modi’s fault- that’s were all these industrialist have been putting their money anyway – buy cheap goods from China and sell in India.
These guys have become so used to raking in money by bribing and getting their way through contacts in high places that doing a business legally, is proving difficult.
this is how the whole country was working. He is only saying – which bhakts may not understand – that change was forced too suddenly, and GST rates are impossibly high, and highly complicated, due to which he has lost business to the Adanis and the Ambanis who are favored by Modi.
From Social Media messages being forwarded a clear atmosphere of Fear is being generated! Hopefully 24 May will be Golden day for India.
Not one of my businessmen friends has told me that corruption has vanished, or even come down substantially. What may have happened is that when business is down, the flow of rents has decreased. Most of all in real estate, where many fewer new launches of projects are taking place. Taken as a group, businesspersons, barring some whose political / ideological convictions override all else, are the last set of people who would look forward to a second term. Forget the undergraduate remark about Suit boot ki sarkar. Indians can never be smiling if traders / industrialists are scowling.
Isn’t this a paid blog?
Yes. By The Print.
Shivam now you are becoming desperate
Well said and Agreed with Author 100 percent. Disregard middle class employees here that live off caramel custard and speak from Armchairs.
Shri Vij, I strongly suspect that a lot of your own creative biased exaggerations have gone into writing this article, but I am not surprised! You are what you are. Now that that is settled, please do explain what is this parallel economy which Modi has been trying to throttle? Is this (parallel economy) something which runs in another gallaxy or are you in fact with your usual creative suppression of fact actually referring to the Black Economy? You know the one where people don’t pay any taxes, not by creating accounting but by cold blooded tax evasion?
In Shri Agarwal’s case, he probably bought raw material in black, processed it with stolen electricity , with labour employed off the record, with exploitative wages with no benefits in Dickinsion conditions, no respect for the environment and then sold his goods without paying any sales, excise or any other tax. Of course he probably didn’t pay any income tax too on his earnings. This Shri Vij is what you so pleasantly refer to as the parallel economy and if this illicit economy eventually dies then Bharat will definitely benefit. Yes Shri Agarwal and his ilk will suffer but in this land of karma you have to pay for your sins.
Excellent
Shivam is running his own private campaign to dethrone Modi.
Excellent review
Umang ji country is really in danger.