Is there any data present in how much filthy rich people are there?
Like even frauds but rich that can buy 100000 worth phones easily. Can buy luxury car if they want etc.
In a country of 140 crore people, only 6.77 crore file taxes, out of which only 20 lakh people pay taxes with income over 20 lakh.
The income tax data collected shows only 1.7 lakh people reporting income of more than Rs 1 crore in a year.
Yet luxury brands like BMW, Jaguar, Audi, Mercedes, Porsche, and Maserati sell almost 35,000 cars every year.
Also, 45 lakh people have incomes above Rs 10 lakh, but 25 lakh cars are bought every year. That only shows that tax evasion is soaring.
EMI bhi kuch hota hai.
And not everyone is buying those high end cars.
Salaried income earners are not rich. Landlords, small business owners, investors , etc. and even top farmers earn way more than any top salaried employee.
there is big population of people who are rich farmers or use farm land to launder money. Many of the high value cars are purchased thru company names. If you look at the number of ITR 3/4/5 being filed.. they are of the highest numbers. Only, farming thru rented land is not profitable in india. Most farmers who own the land make good money. .
Corporates get to spend the money and then pay tax on the balance amount, so they have an incentive to purchase high end cars. ("instead of paying tax, we can spend it on something that we use"- kind of logic)
Like even frauds but rich that can buy 100000 worth phones easily. Can buy luxury car if they want etc.
The last I saw, to be in top 1% individual in terms of wealth, you needed to have assets worth $77k. This is from news article of 2020. Sharing link here - https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/this-is-what-it-take...
I would say 175k is based on "reported" data. There's huge unreported wealth in India and that 1% figure might be eve...
This should help everyone understand the true picture of income brackets Indians fall in, where do viners belong?
Grapeviners exclusively in the last two bars it seems like 🥲