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On the bright side. Dead people don't pay taxes.



They don't pay income tax. They still have to pay all the other kinds of tax like sales, service, etc.


Unfortunately they may have trouble getting employment to have any income to not pay taxes on, and a long list of other problems.


About 85-93% of employees in India are in the informal sector,[1] where the employer does not care about whether the employee is legally dead, and taxes are not paid either way.

1. https://www.businesstoday.in/jobs/story/labour-law-reforms-n...


A paradise for a free labor market. I hope the predominance of informal employment continues even as India continues to move toward a (post-)industrial economy.


I wonder if Indian laborers share your view that their economic system is a paradise?




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