when we can spend crores of money for the security of worthless so called NETAS why can't we do the same for sachin whom the all Indians love.I feel nothing wrong in it.Atleast he is doing something for our motherland.
Actualy people like him (having lot of money) should never think like this. He is making millons of money and then why is he trying to avoid tax which he can pay easily. At last that burdon is going to come on heads like us (working middle class). How is our goverment also permiting this? If they realy care players then they should help players from other game instead of cricket.
This is excellent! The primary fault is that our political Netas imagine themselves to be monarchs, free to spend the taxpayer's money as if it were their personal property. Tendulkar HAS TO PAY the import duty, just like any other citizen of India. Another recent example of the politician's grandiose munificence at the expense of the public exchequeur is the money given to Ustad Bismillah Khan. I am as much an admirer of the Khan Saheb as of Tendulkar, but is it the duty of the people of India to support his entire "family" of 70 members? Another politician from Bihar (who resembles Alfred Newmann of the MAD magazine), some time back gave Rs.50,000 in Delhi to a rikshawalla (originally from Bihar) for the "heart surgery of his son". Another example is Uttar Pradesh: it was reported four years ago that UP chief ministers, and Governors during Presidents Rule, have disbursed a staggering Rs 68 crore of public money with no questions asked. The CAG had objected to these grants being given to religious bodies or to organizations based on castes.
It is very bad that sachin has actually asked for tax exemption and our ministers as sachin asked, so they have not thought of anything else but sachin's batting skills, granted without second thought.This is really pity and esepcially when the arjuna awards committee was told to scale down it's count just because there is no money(what a pity in a country like india..);-).
The nation wud have been very very happy if our ministers or fiat comp who love sachin and his batting, should have actually paid the tax also instead of making holes to exchequer....
( this was happened some time back in pak also and then prime minister told taht cricker taht i can't waive the tax my boy but i can pay on ur behalf..what a nice guesture to acknowledge and what a way to respond on people's behalf..!!!)
Sachin should not have asked for the waiver in the first place - he should set an example by paying up the duty - there is no way when common earners beyond Rs. 40000 pay taxes as to why this guy who earns only in millions cannot pay taxes which is rightfully claimable by the statutes !!
With due respect to our all-time great Sachin Tendulkar, knowing that Customs Duty is levied on an imported car, perhaps even a gifted car, it would have been better for him either to politely refuse the gift or pay the Customs Duty in vogue if he was inclined to accept the gift. I agree that there should not be any departure from rules for anybody, high or low.
