Why should I pay tax?

You may complain government is not doing enough to solve our problem.Traffic is a problem. IT professionals are getting harassed byeverybody starting from vegetable vendors to auto-walahs. But not payingtax is not the solution. A mistake does not solve another mistake.

Is the tax so high? I don't think so. In India we don't pay tax till1,50,000.Some part of HRA is exempted from tax. Savings till 1,00,000 is exemptedfrom tax.Tax is lower at lower income group and increases after a certain income.So somebody whoearns around 6,00,000 pays an tax of 1,00,000, which is around 16%? Thisis much bellow than thatof USA. So the employees don't pay much tax.

Who is getting benifited from the tax? Lot of us studied in subsidizedschool/college or private school or college which is build on subsidized land.Government has paid for us, and it should be our duty to return back.

Today lots of IT professionals own their own car. It increases thetraffic problem.Thus government needs to build fly-over. Spend to manage the trafficproblem. So government does spend because of us.

Why should I pay tax?

A working professional pays income tax before he gets her salary. And probable one of the honest community which pays proper amount of tax on time. Many of my friends complain about undue tax rate and how we as working professional pay more tax and get nothing from the government. Come to any office in Jan/Feb, you will hear about tax talk. How much is to be taxed, what is the legal/illegal way of reducing the tax.

Many people complain about paying tax, but mostly what they complain is not to pay any tax at all, but to pay reasonable tax and get return of it. Are they over taxed? Are they not getting the return of the tax? What is the government doing with th tax?

Intelligence failure and Maoist attack

Maoist attck is both intellegence failure, and incapability of police.

Intelligence Failure:
1) A local newspaper reported about possibile attack 2 days ago and police ignored the report.
2)Dasapalla inspector send a message to the SP about some suspect people moving towards nayagarh. SP send some constable to check the fact, but unable to identify.
3) Maoist killed the shopkeeper who owns the tire shop as he opposed maoists taking tires forcefully. Police was not alerted from the incident
4) Maoist ate at Trinath hotel and have not paid the bill and asked the hotel to shut down in the evening.
5) Maoists did not pay after fueling petrol.

Police did not take any action to organize against Maoist. It is common failure of Maoist.

Incapability of Police:
1) Police was asking about the bullets and don't know how to fire
2) Trained police with proper weapon could have caused more casuality among Maoists if police was strategically positioned. But police was living in fear and casuality of Maoists is not being reported.
3) Maoists knew aboit weapons worth crores coming to Police training school where as whole department was unaware about this.
4) Most of the student in police training student were deputed to Bhuaneswar on the same day.

Microsoft refuses to boost its Yahoo bid

When Yahoo did not agree on the bid from Microsoft, MSFT has options
1) sweeten the bid
2) Go hostile to buy it from the share holder
3) Spend money to change the board of director
4) Forget about the take over now

Microsoft denied to go in the 1st way to increase the bid. I believe, 4th option is out of choice and Microsooft won't go back from here. So it will either do a hostile take over or try to change the board of director. 3rd choice seems more appropriate for Microsft, and expecting Google to move ahead further than both YAHOO and MSFT when they are concentrating on take-over or no take-over.

AIDS Malaria and NGOs in Orissa

What is the name of the disease where NGOs spend highest amount of money? The answer is AIDS. They hardly help any victim and definitely don’t do any research in AIDS. All the money goes in advertisement and creating awareness (easiest way to prepare report without spending any??). At the end of the day, what is the level of awareness among the common people? It is way bellow the expectation. People don’t touch an AIDS patient expecting it is epidemic.

What is the name of disease which caused the highest number of casualties and deaths? It is Malaria. There are certain areas where if somebody goes to hospital for fever, doctor starts treatment for malaria before doing the blood test. Government or NGOs need not spend millions for advertisement/awareness. People know the problem. No research is required for medicine, we already have the medicines. NGOs and government need to work on it so that the number of causality because of malaria is lower and gradually eradicated.

Interestingly the number NGOs those who show interest in eradicating Malaria are far less than those who show interest in AIDS. Probable money generation is the motive behind starting a NGO and not helping the poor.

Maoist Attack in Nayagarh

Maoists claimed they are working for people and against the Police and do not want to harm common people. Are they friend of common people? Hell no!! Why did they kill the shop owner who is selling tires? They wanted to rub the armoury and killed whoever opposed it.

Maoist attacked Nayagarh to loot the armoury. It is an intelligence failure of the State and centre and a plan well executed by Maoists. Police was helpless in front of the Maoists. It is a challenge for the cheif minister Naveen Patnayak to crub the maoists.

Maoists are not only looted the armoury but also able to put the citizen in fear and can keep their work going. Maoists now can get their work done both by the name of poor and fear. Do this or we will kill you your loved ones etc. Government need to remove the fear. Government need to ensure that the state is run by state government and not maoists.

Naveen has shown he is an able cheif minister by handling Kandhamal tension. I hope he will handle it and show he is still the best. Let government work for the people, so that maoists will loose the ground in Orissa. Wish the state government good luck.

Will YAHOO become another NETSCAPE?

Microsoft bids take over of yahoo to compete with Google in online advertisement. The sole purpose to buy Yahoo is to increase Microsoft'sshare in online ad? What is yahoo doing? Is it an online ad company? Itd oes much more than online advertisement. For me yahoo is a content provider than a search engine. It reminds me a similar instance, Netscape takeover by AOL. AOL bought Netscape because it did not want to pay licence fees for internet explorer and want to have its own browser. It did right by buying the best browser company Netscape.But once Netscape become an AOL Company, innovations at NETSCAPE has slowly died. Netscape no longer provided next generation web Technologies, rather it become a browser only company. Application Server, Web server, directory server etc has been sold out/out sourcedby AOL. May be people will forget Netscape as BRAND and will rememberNetscape as a browser. Will same thing happen to Yahoo? Hope it won't. Yahoo will keep itsinnovation. And it will be more than ad company.