Taxing Residents to Death: Open Space Tax
The Karnataka government is playing with the health of all life by taxing open space of our houses. Plant life today is rare in Mysuru,with open spaces built up into concrete monstrosities with multiple stories. Pollution is preventing us from breathing. Water is polluted. Sewage rivers in Mysuru is the stinking norm. MCC has lost civic sense and is acting as a livery implementing the retrograde tax orders issued thoughtlessly by a government which is bent upon ruining the health of nature itself. The government is causing the pandemics to be more aggressive by destroying the immune system with filthy air, water and soil. A tree transpires its own weight of water in a day. Thus a tree recharges the groundwaters to the extent of Rs. Four lacs per year(See derivation below). When our gardens recharge the wells, the level of water is maintained. We can then have drinking water for our families produced by our gardens. When houses have gardens, they give us health. Instead of taxing us to death, the government should give credit. There is a big precedent for this. It is not as if the governments have been heartless in the matter. When the Tatas at their Mithapur chemical plant saved some 50 percent of the fossil fuel way back in the fifties and sixties, and applied to the government for credit for such saving, the government duly recognized their feat and are giving them credit for fuel saved, not taxing them for saving so much mining and waste of precious forests! Rescind your order now and follow the ways of good governance that you yourself have set as precedent. Contribute to the mitigation of climate change. This way the government will ensure the health of mother earth. Instead of adding fuel to the fire of covid 19, ensure our health by doing your Karma truthfully. Your Karma is clear: You return the service we are rendering to mother earth by trees in our properties by giving us credit for doing our Karma which, as the Gita says, is by being the genesis and support of all life. Celebrate Dasara in a non-invasive way. See a portion of My Garden below.
The First estimate calculations buttressing the above submission.
posted by Ramaswami Ashok Kumar at 10:42 AM
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See how the public feel on the issue:
https://starofmysore.com/open-space-tax-are-we-going-to-be-taxed-for-growing-trees/amp/#comment-18332
Related issue:
https://starofmysore.com/plug-overflow-of-drainage-water-near-ashoka-circle/amp/
Re this property tax issue of taxing open space see also some details:
https://starofmysore.com/open-space-tax-riles-residents/
Mysore/Mysuru: If you have more than 1,000 square feet of open space on any side of your house, you are liable to pay more tax to the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC). As per the order from the State Government, such property owners are liable to pay more per square feet in addition to the property tax they are already paying.
This move has, however, come under flak from the residents and business community of the city who have termed it as unfair. “Yes, we have open space in front of our house and the backyard and we are using the space to grow greenery. To tax this space is ridiculous,” said a house owner who has got a tax notice of Rs. 28,000. Till now he was paying Rs. 8,000 as property tax.
See more in the URL cited.
e: https://www.deccanherald.com/opinion/modi-s-farm-misadventure-will-hurt-urbanisation-1053288.html
Good article to start with for a referendum instead of calling it tragedy or quits. See how the World's dams are destroying all our farm and forest lands converting the nation and the world to a dust bowl. You must start living now by transforming our destructive ways of life to one which has nature as the bottom line.
What kind of urbanization? Certainly not the kind where open space is taxed, like in karnataka. Groundwaters are charged upto Rs 4 lacs worth water per year per tree in our gardens which is the basis of urban survival and this is taxed instead of giving credit to the residents for garden space. For identical savings tycoons are given credit. You foolish rulers! Life is not due to your generosity. It is our right. STOP THIS MADNESS. Withdraw the order taking our life breath. The concerned authorities must be handed capital punishment before they kill us all.
See all the articles in Ramaswami Ashok Kumar. Modern and Normal Civilizations. Blogspot.
Link:
https://modernandnormal.blogspot.com/2006/09/modern-and-normal-civilizations.html
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