I pay Rs 2.75 lakh tax on Rs 5 lakh salary: President Kovind

印度总统科温德：工资50万卢比，我纳税27.5万卢比

KANPUR: Urging people to pay taxes to push development work, President Ram Nath Kovind, while visiting his village in Kanpur Dehat in UP, said that he too paid almost 55% of his monthly salary as income tax.

坎普尔：印度总统拉姆·纳特·科温德在视察北方邦坎普尔德哈特的村庄时，敦促人们纳税以推动发展工作。他说，他每月工资的近55%用于缴纳所得税。

However, many pointed out on social media that the President's income is not taxable and that even the highest income tax paid by the super-rich, including cess and surcharge, on income of over Rs 5 crore a year works out to 42.7%.

然而，很多人在社交媒体上指出，印度总统的收入不需要纳税，超级富豪缴纳的所得税是最高的，包括所得税和附加费，每年收入超过5000万卢比的部分纳税比例也才42.7%。

"Everyone knows - and there is nothing wrong about it - that the President is the country's highest-paid employee. But he too pays tax. I pay Rs 2.75 lakh as tax per month. Everyone says I get Rs 5 lakh a month, but it is taxed too. Now, how much does that leave me with? Our officials earn more than what I save. Teachers earn the most," he said.

他说：“每个人都知道总统是印度薪酬最高的员工，没错，但他也要纳税。我每个月要交27.5万卢比的税。每个人都说我一个月工资有50万卢比，但也要交税。那我还剩多少钱？ 我们的官员挣的比我存的还多。教师的收入最高。”

以下是印度时报读者的评论：译者：Jessica.Wu

Russell Ian Duarte

CAN YOU PLEASE CONFIRM IF YOU PAY HOUSE RENT???? ELECTRICITY AND WATER BILL?????GAS AND TRAVELL EXPENSES???TELEPHONE AND FOOD???DOCTORS AND MEDICAL EXPENSES??

请问你是否支付房租、水电账单、汽油和出行费、电话费、伙食费、医生和医疗费用？

Sane Voice

Why will the deduction be 55 percent when Tax should be 30.9 percent?

税率是30.9%，为什么会扣55% ?

OSHIAN

Salaried class is worst affected… only they know their pain. Only 4% of the population pay income tax. 96% eats on our hard worked earnings. SAD but True

工薪阶层受到的影响最大，只有他们知道自己的痛苦。只有4%的人口缴纳所得税，96%的人靠我们辛苦工作挣来的钱生活。悲哀但是事实

Avinash Reddy

what a lie

弥天大谎！

Natarajan D

Only govt employees has to pay taxes sincerely. Many people don’t pay taxes what to do. Govt imposes tax on everything. Even interest earned is taxed. Every item is taxed. Even travel by tax is taxed. So people find ways , for not paying tax

只有政府雇员诚实纳税，很多人不交税。政府对一切都征税，甚至利息收入也要征税，每件物品都征税。即使坐出租车也要交税，所以人们想方设法不交税

Dr Bapu Kalai

and u get everything for free. need not to spend a penny.

你可以免费获得一切，不用花一分钱。

Arudhra Mathur

when you get everything else free you can pay 50% tax. now a Common man pays 60% to 70% to Government as tax of different kinds and forms..

你用的东西都是免费的，当然可以交50%的税。现在一个普通人要向政府缴纳不同种类和形式的税，占收入的60%到70%的。

somnath ghosh

Ha ha, What a joke! When everything is free one can pay 100% Making cruel fun of the poor people?

哈哈，真是笑话

如果一切都是免费的，全部拿去交税都行。

Deepak

When even a kid knows that presidents salary and all perks are except from tax, this man is lying!

连一个孩子都知道总统的薪水和所有的津贴都是不用交税的，这个人是在撒谎!

Aristotle

firstly what do u do? what's the role of a president? i have never seen you doing anything... and what about the allowances u get...

首先，你是做什么的?

总统的职责是什么?

我从没见过你做什么…

你还有津贴呢……

Great Himalay

Mr. President I guess all your other expenses will always be taken care of by the Government! So even iff you pay 50% of your salary as taxes, practically you don't have much expenses from your remaining salary

总统先生，你所有的开支都由政府买单

因此，即使你50%的工资都交税了，实际上你的剩余工资也没有多少支出

Shashi Kant

Make my salary 5 lakh and i will pay 3 lakh as tax

把我的工资提到50万卢比，我愿意交30万卢比的税

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Thats very nice but look at how much free stuff he gets, food accomodation, travel clothes service, than who pays for that , we the citizen of tge country pay for it, does the central goverment give anything free for the citizen of the country, absouletly not!!

很好，但看看他获得了多少免费的东西，衣食住行谁买单，我们公民买单，印度政府给公民提供免费的东西吗？绝对没有!!

Barath Parthasarathy

for him everything free . for us common man?

对他来说，一切都是免费的，我们普通人呢?

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Only middle class people pay tax

只有中产阶级交税

Ashok kumar Slngh

And u also get everything free for that. Rest of the people don't.

你也得到免费的一切，但其他人没有。

User

This gov from top to bottom is 1 hell of a liar.

Even the 1st citizen of the country-the president.

印度政府从上到下都是彻头彻尾的骗子，就连总统也是。

somnath ghosh

Why do get salary? What have you done sitting on that chair living on tax payers money?

为什么要拿薪水?

你坐在那个位置上，靠纳税人的钱生活，

你都做了什么?

FEKU THE RAT

These governers and president jobs must be abolished from india because these are the most useless jobs and laibilities on State's meagre resources , Mostly they do nothing but to live idle ., and a heavy burden on Nation's treasury

印度必须废除邦长和总统职位，因为这些职位对印度来说是最没用，他们大多无所事事，是国家财政的沉重负担

Shri

So for doing nothing this useless guy gets 5 lacks ..great

这个没用的家伙什么都不用做就能领50万卢比