Dehradun, March 31 -- The COVID-19 crisis has revealed how dependent societies the world over are on their governments. The government is expected to intervene and provide solutions to almost everything when things go wrong. In
normal times, however, people's tendency is to undercut state power, even when it comes to simply contributing through payment of taxes. In fact, it is obvious that the best performing governments are those that have the maximum number of people paying income tax - it creates a sense of shareholding. In that context, India
ranks amongst the worst in the world. Ways and means are found even to evade indirect taxes, which is why so much of the economy has existed in what is euphemistically described as the 'informal ...