Who's afraid of the Union Budget? Not the experts and anchors on television. The aplomb with which they dish out acronyms or flash allocation figures as big as telephone numbers on the screen would lead you to think that Indians cut their teeth on tax manuals and sectoral spending statistics. But some of us didn't, so one could have been forgiven for assuming that all that talk about DTC was referring to Delhi's bus service. Turns out that it stands for the Direct Tax Code. And what is that? You are supposed to know because through an entire programme on Doordarshan nobody explained, they merely talked knowledgeably about fiscal consolidation and the aligning of personal tax with corporate tax. Switch to the next channel where somebody equally earnest was holding forth on fiscal correction. If there is plain English for any of this you are unlikely to get it on TV. It doesn't occur to either the expert or the interlocutor to explain.
more at hindu
No comments:
Post a Comment