Social media raged on Sunday as more people grasped the import of a 43-page report floated Saturday by Indian Revenue Service officers.
The report calls for higher taxes and cess to fund the government’s spend on healthcare and contain the fall in its revenues due to covid-induced lockdown.
One twitter user, Harsh Gupta, commented, “For a hammer, everything is a nail," while another said this was the officers’ way of getting back at the government for freezing the dearness allowance of all its employees.
One Twitter user said this was probably the government’s idea to gauge public reaction to some of tax proposals that are bound to be unpopular.