Taxes.

Byline: SYED ZAHID Ali - Sukkur

Have you ever wondered that why people are more willing to pay more for charity rather than paying less for taxes? Because they don't have trust on government and its spending in country. People pay taxes in exchange of getting their needs fulfilled and for getting benefits of that amount. The amount they pay for tax doesn't impact on their life style, health and other facilities. The taxes are paid so that we can get health, education and other advantages.

But unfortunately we don't even sense such things here in Pakistan. This is just because of lack of trust in government. Government is totally failed in providing incentives and benefits when you pay taxes. The policies in other countries like Switzerland, UK, USA etc are public oriented rather than just sucking money from them. They charge more taxes, around 30% to 45% over income but they provide you each and every benefit you deserve.

They facilitate you with health, education, full employment and so many other allowances and loans freely. Whereas, in Our country we pay taxes on every product we buy and ultimately we pay double and triple taxes. These unfair policies have struck people to be away from tax paying concept. The main goal of government is to facilitate its people with every new trend and innovation. But...