Hi Metin

>We have a special process tax. No one knows what that mean... :)
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>We pay special telecommunication tax with GSM. We can understand that. But we cannot understand that; why we pay for VAT for that tax... :S
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>You see. We pay tax for tax... If any smart officer thought about VAT for VAT that could be cause an endless loop... :)

That is the problem too here, complicated tax and tax on tax, for eg. Education Cess and Secondary & Higher Education Cess are 2% and 1% resp. of the Central Govt. Taxes like Central Excise, Income Tax, Central Sales Tax.

So for eg. Central Excise is 16%, Edu. Cess is 2% of 16% and S&H Edu. Cess is 1% of 16%. It is good the govt. has decided to do something about education of the poor class of people (it will not be taken advantage of by my children, I just pay and who really benefits from these taxes is a different matter altogether). But if they want, take Cen. Excise of 17%, 18% and distribute the additional revenue to whichever account they have internally, instead of complicating the calculations. IT is 30% + 2% (of 30%) EDC + 1% (of 30%) SHEDC

But then as members from different countries are agreeing to similar no. of taxes, it is soothing to know we are not alone :)