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AGENDA: • Corruption (Introduction) • Causes Of Corruption • Overseas Black Money • Tax Heavens • Black Money Involved` • The Great Indian Silence • The Fact • Effects Of Corruption • India Must Act
INTRODUCTION • Oldest and complicated phenomenon • A kind of bribery • Fraud • Nepotism (partiality) • Need driven • Greed driven • Cronyism
Causes Of Corruption • Lack of transparency (inflow and outflow of money). • Silence. • Poverty. • Greed. • Illiteracy. • Unmet expectations. • Low public sector salaries. • Increasing rate of tax. • Increasing rate of inflation. • Increasing rate of competition.
Overseas Black Money …the curse that stops India from developing
What Are Tax Havens? • Small countries like Switzerland, Angola, Bermuda, etc that act as places of registration for overseas non-resident companies. • They have zero or very low incometax. • They ask no questions on the origins of the money coming into their banks. • They keep all banking records secret and cooperate very little with other countries.
Money Involved • Total dirty money in tax-havens = $11.5 trillion (rs 7.5 crore-crore). • 50% of this money belongs to the developing countries like India. • Estimated Indian black money in foreign banks $500 billion (rs 25 lac-crores). • They have no contribution to the world, except as points on the world-map where ‘dirty’ money is kept safely. • Avg. Size of 34 such point-countries = 17 kms by 17 kms.
The Great Indian Silence • Germany & France threaten Blacklisting of Switzerland. India keeps quiet. • Germany and France take the issue of secret banks and tax havens in the g20 preparatory meeting at Berlin in February 2009. India keeps quiet. • German govt. Offers to open Secret Names of the account holders in LGT bank of Liechtenstein. India keeps quiet.
The Great Indian Silence • These two nations and supported by UK and the US raise the voice against secret banks and tax havens in London in April 2009, India keeps quiet. • Why India has not effectively worked to get the names of several Indians believed to be in the secret records?
The Fact • Unholy relations between Politicians, Bureaucrats and Businessmen. • “At least $70-80 billion goes out every year. • India’s black economy is 5 percent of GDP growth. • India’s size of the economy would have been $9trillion. • India has been witnessing unprecedented growth in its black economy. • Now estimated to constitute an alarming 50% of country’s GDP growth.
Effects Of Corruption • No enhanced social infrastructure . • Improper health care services. • Poor educational facilities. • Less Employment opportunities. • 90 percent of the hungry mouths in the country. • Every family could have had a home. • Lose 5 percent of its GDP over the last 30 years. • Opportunity cost. • The world’s second-largest economy, just after the US.
Continued… • Lack of Transparent and technologically efficient economic system. • We could have edged ahead of the us and china together in terms of production vis-a-vis consumption. • Generation is primarily • Consumption-driven, • Partly production-driven and • Wholly caught up in corruption. • More importantly, we would not have had to witness the Anna hazare movement to root out corruption if we didn’t have a black economy.
India Must Act • Develop national will & agenda against black money in foreign banks. • Get immigration details of the 25,000 frequent travelers to tax havens. • Upgrade financial action task force (fatf) membership to full. • Make specific anti-tax haven laws. • Publicize entire economic history of overseas account holders. • Ensure India friendly global anti-secret banking rules. • Appoint a special emissary to Germany & Switzerland. • Develop a proper institutional infrastructure to fight the flight-of- capital.
Conclusion: • Corruption is universal. • Both developed and developing, in the public and private sectors. • Corruption is a major constraint that is hindering their • Economic, • Political and • Social development, • Hence, view it as A problem requiring urgent attention at the highest level.
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