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SME Times News Bureau | 25 Apr, 2017
Noted economist and NITI Aayog member Bibek Debroy on Tuesday said there
was a need to expand the tax base by bringing agricultural income under
the tax ambit.
He said there was also a need to eliminate exemptions on personal income tax.
Talking
to reporters here, Debroy said while the exemptions on personal income
tax need to go, the "eventual answer to expand the tax base is to tax
the rural sector, including agricultural income above a certain
threshold.
"While only the agricultural income of farmers is
exempt from taxation, their non-agricultural income also goes un-taxed,"
he said.
Asked what should be the threshold for taxing agricultural income, Debroy said it should be same as in the urban areas.
"I
don't believe in the artificial rural-urban distinctions. So whatever
is the threshold of personal income tax in urban areas should be for the
rural areas as well.
"At best, what (we) can do is -- because
it is agricultural income -- (we) can average it out over a three- or a
five-year period instead of using income from one particular year...
because agricultural income is subject to annual fluctuations," Debroy
said.
"Barring that, the threshold should be the same."
During
the press conference, NITI (National Institution for Transforming
India) Aayog Vice Chairman Arvind Panagariya shared details of the draft
three-year action plan proposed to replace the erstwhile Five-Year
Plans.
Panagariya said that over the next three years, there was a
need to tackle tax evasion, expand the tax base and simplify the tax
system through reforms.
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