CA Praveen Reddy

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First we pay the tax. Then we pay for the workaround. We pay to buy an RO. We pay to buy an inverter. We pay to buy an air purifier. We pay to buy an induction stove. We pay for private tuition. We pay for waste collection. We pay for private healthcare. We pay for private schools and that goes on. And somehow, all of this gets counted as “consumer spending.” But there’s a question hiding underneath it. Are we really becoming a richer consumer economy? Or are we simply becoming better at paying privately for probl…

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