Individual tax reform - empowering citizens to help build community they want to live in.
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In different parts of the world, you see homeless people on
street and want to bring them out of that situation, you see poor uncared or
abandoned animals on street and want to do something about it, you care about
safety in your neighbourhood and want to do something about broken or absent
street lights; you see mound of waste on street and want to see your city
clean, you see your city getting flooded every year and want to do something
about it.
The tax money one pays goes into solving these issues
anyways, but the priorities and fund allocation against each issue is decided
by someone's else, i.e., by government. By paying the tax money you acknowledge
your contribution to making a livable city and a reasonable society, but you
dont feel the satisfaction of actually, in tangible ways, contributing to the
specific cause you cared about, through your tax contribution.
There is a possible way that you may have actual control on
directly contributing to cause you care about, if we do a creative reform in
the individual taxation. If you as an individual are given the choice, power,
and means to assign and distribute part of, say 50% of your applicable tax
amount to one or many causes you care about, from a long list of possible
issues, where you want your part tax money to go. Also having the choice of
whether your part tax money goes to national or regional or local tax reserve,
depending on the scale of issue and nature of cause you care about.
This way you assure that you made the direct financial
contribution to the cause you care about, get the sense of satisfaction that
you helped ameliorate the specific situation within your community,
neighbourhood and country, that bothered you for long. You can even measure the
direct impact you made there through observation over time.
If central, regional and local government, and tax
authorities, in any part of the world, in any country, in any city, jointly
decide to do such tax reform, and if they do the math, the sum total of funds
available for various investment priorities, should theoritically remain same
as they projected upfront, despite citizens making random choices about their
part tax money distribution. If not so, it only shows that citizen and
community priorities are different than what government and city adminstration
thought, which will in turn further prompt alignment of national/
regional/local priorities with citizen aspirations.
Author: Anoop Jha
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