Tax money or revenue is the income/money gained by the government through taxation(a mandatory contribution by an individual or company that earns a certain amount of income).
Tax is the primary source of income for the government. There are different types of taxes which income tax, corporate tax, capital gains, sales, and property taxes are the main taxes that boost government revenue. In total, taxpayers contribute 53.77% of revenue to the government as per a recent analysis. This is again spent on the public to improve the nation in various aspects like various health and welfare schemes.
How Does the Government Spend My Taxes?
How Tax is Used?
- The government uses the tax collected either by person/company to improve overall infrastructure like providing roads.
- Providing roads to drivers and riders has no issue on state/national Highways
- Healthcare: To provide service for prevention, treatment, cure, or relief of a physical, mental, or behavioral condition, illness, disease, or virus.
- Subsidies: some goods provided at low cost to certain sectors of the population (lpg, train tickets, fertilizer, etc.)
- Pension: income after retirement. The government takes responsibility for its former employers &provides pensions. Approximately 6.42% of government income is used for pensions.
- Also, tax is used to transfer to States & territories for emergency management & development, and education facilities.
- Every individual who earns income should pay taxes in which they will be benefited in return in the form of different welfare schemes & development Programmes or infrastructure by the government.
Frequently Asked Questions
Q 1. How are taxes used by the government?
Answer-
The taxes are used for various purposes by the government which includes funding for spending without inflation and taxes are for funding public infrastructure and for development as well as welfare projects.
Q 2. How does the government use the tax money in India?
Answer-
The tax money is used for funding essential expenses which include police, defence, judiciary, public health etc.
Q 3. Which country has no income tax?
Answer-
Kuwait has no income tax.