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A comment on India's living dead.

Re:India's living dead by kevin_thibedeau on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @03:03AM (#28298763)
On the bright side. Dead people don't pay taxes.
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Re:India's living dead by qart on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @05:45AM (#28299587)
They don't pay income tax. They still have to pay all the other kinds of tax like sales, service, etc.
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Re:India's living dead by dspillett on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @05:10AM (#28299423)
Unfortunately they may have trouble getting employment to have any income to not pay taxes on, and a long list of other problems.
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Re:India's living dead by joshuaissac on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @05:50AM (#28299608)
About 85-93% of employees in India are in the informal sector,[1] where the employer does not care about whether the employee is legally dead, and taxes are not paid either way.

1. https://www.businesstoday.in/jobs/story/labour-law-reforms-n...

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Re:India's living dead by BeFlatXIII on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @08:24AM (#28300748)
A paradise for a free labor market. I hope the predominance of informal employment continues even as India continues to move toward a (post-)industrial economy.
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Re:India's living dead by spywaregorilla on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @09:45AM (#28301597)
I wonder if Indian laborers share your view that their economic system is a paradise?
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