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Billionaires, corporates benefit from tax cuts; Congress

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โ€œProfessionals, middle-class, workers pay ever-higher income taxesโ€

New Delhi: Big billionaires and corporations got tax cuts from the Modi government while the salaried and middle classes and workers pay ever-higher income taxes, the Congress has alleged .

Congress General Secretary Jairam Ramesh said even small businesses such as proprietorships and partnerships pay income tax and not corporate tax.

โ€œIn Modiโ€™s โ€˜Anyay Kaalโ€™, 21 billionaires and huge corporations get tax cuts while the salaried professionals, middle-class, and workers pay ever-higher income taxes,โ€ he said in a post on X.

He further said, โ€œA simple picture tells the whole story โ€” when Dr Manmohan Singh left office, personal income tax was 21 per cent of total tax collections while corporate tax was 35 per cent.โ€

Then, two days before the โ€œHowdy Modiโ€ event, the Centre announced huge corporate tax cuts, costing the exchequer Rs 2 lakh crore, Ramesh alleged.

Today, the share of corporate tax of the total tax collection has dropped sharply to its lowest level in a decade to just 27.1 per cent, he claimed.

Meanwhile, the share of personal income tax in the total tax collection has shot up to 27.4 per cent, he added.

โ€œWithout a private investment boom, GDP growth simply cannot accelerate. The finance minister claimed that these corporate handouts would kick off such a boom โ€” instead, private investment has collapsed, from a peak of 35 per cent of GDP under Dr Manmohan Singh, to below 29 per cent for the entire Modi sarkar tenure,โ€ Ramesh alleged in his post.

โ€œNote that while corporate taxes have been cut, it is only mega-corporations and the 21 billionaires of India who benefit. Small businesses like proprietorships and partnerships pay income tax, not corporate tax,โ€ Ramesh added.

He also shared a graph to compare the tenures of the Narendra Modi government and the Manmohan Singh government to highlight the rise in personal income tax collections as a percentage of the total tax collected and the decline in corporate tax collections.

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