Confused?
Let me explain.
Assume you are walk-in to a nearby breakfast counter and ordering a masala dosa (hotel menu reads it cost 45 INR for one special masala dosa including tax). So you decided to have one and ordered it. Now the cashier is giving you a bill of 243000 INR!!!
WTF!!!
Yes, that’s what most us think. Now the shop owner is with me to explain. According to him, as mentioned in menu a masala dosa cost 45 rupees only including tax. But ….
“There are 30 days in a month and such 12 months are there in a year. “Life-time” is considered as 15 years in our system, so the amount 2, 43,000/- is the cost of spl masala dosa for 15 years. “
I can read your mind; let me guess it.
“What on earth made you to think that I will daily have masala dosa and that too from this shop?
What is the guarantee that I will be around this place for next 15 years?
What is the guarantee that the shop will be there for 15 years or me living for next 15 years?
Why can’t you just charge for what I eat, every time?"
Yes. That’s exactly what we are asking for.
We already paid the so-called life time tax in one state of INDIA. Ideally we should be able to drive anywhere in India without issues. We are ready to inform authorities about the vehicle transfer (if at all it happens from one state to another). It is the responsibility of states to transfer the tax money collected to respective state. Their incapability is turned out as burden on common-people.
What exactly is this “BURDEN”? to understand this, will go back to the masala dosa.
Somehow you agreed (or forced) to pay 243000 to him and next morning you went to another shop which serves English breakfast. An English breakfast cost a bit more than masala dosa and menu reads 80 INR. You are at the cash counter and took a 100 rupees note & the cashier gave you a bill of 432000/-
“Are you mad?”
Yes, the new shop owner ALSO had the same story (30x12x15) to tell.
“But I just paid 243000 yesterday”
“hmmm.., may be true, we did not get it. You do one thing, pay me 432000 now and get a refund from that guy as you are not eating from there”
Just think: two breakfast in different hotel costing me around 6.75 LAKH INR!!!
An interstate transfer, if not within days, is no different from breakfast from two different hotels, as mentioned above.
#DriveWithoutBorders
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