Why Should I Pay Tax?

But in recent times two things have happened almost simultaneously in India as a result taxpayers are increasingly feeling no obligation towards fulfilling their part of the social contract. First, they feel that purely in personal terms they are not getting the full value of the taxes that they pay. Political corruption has been there since long. But never before in the history of this country have so many cases of daylight robbery by politicians and bureaucrats been exposed. A lay newspaper reader cannot be blamed if he forms an impression that politicians are just looting the money being paid by him as taxes. Why should anybody pay taxes? Is it just to meet the greed and lust of Sukh Ram & co. This anti-tax instinct is being reinforced as the rulers