{"id":3527,"date":"2017-05-21T08:59:21","date_gmt":"2017-05-21T03:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/?p=4081"},"modified":"2017-05-21T08:59:21","modified_gmt":"2017-05-21T03:29:21","slug":"one-tax-to-rule-them-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/one-tax-to-rule-them-all\/","title":{"rendered":"One Tax To Rule Them All"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>This is <a href=\"\/uploads\/images\/rhyme-and-reason-35.png\" rel=\"lightbox\" title=\"One Tax To Rule Them All\" title=\"Rhyme and Reason 35\">the 35th installment<\/a> of <a href=\"\/category\/rhyme-and-reason\/\" title=\"Rhyme and Reason -- Amit Varma\">Rhyme and Reason<\/a>, my weekly set of limericks for the <\/i>Sunday Times of India<i> <a href=\"http:\/\/epaperbeta.timesofindia.com\/NasData\/\/PUBLICATIONS\/THETIMESOFINDIA\/AHMEDABAD\/2017\/05\/21\/PagePrint\/21_05_2017_016_18add19adea0dada82d1cd31c72478f4.pdf\">edit page<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>GST <\/p>\n<p>The Goods and Services Tax is here.<br \/>\nMost other taxes will disappear.<br \/>\nOne massive overhaul.<br \/>\nOne tax to rule them all,<br \/>\nTill the slabs and exemptions appear.<\/p>\n<p>OVERDOSE<\/p>\n<p>So much cricket is driving me mad.<br \/>\nThe IPL had seemed just a fad.<br \/>\nCricket is such a bore,<br \/>\nI will watch it no more.<br \/>\n(Except today&#8217;s final, let me add.)<\/p>\n<p>*<\/p>\n<p><b>Also hear<\/b>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seenunseen.in\/episodes\/2017\/1\/31\/episode-3-gst\" title=\"Episode 3 of The Seen and the Unseen -- GST\">Episode 3<\/a> of my weekly podcast, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seenunseen.in\/\" title=\"The Seen and the Unseen\">The Seen and the Unseen<\/a>, with Devangshu Datta, which was about the GST:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/5036656\/height\/90\/width\/400\/theme\/custom\/autonext\/no\/thumbnail\/yes\/autoplay\/no\/preload\/no\/no_addthis\/no\/direction\/backward\/no-cache\/true\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/87A93A\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/p>\n<p><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><i>This is <a href=\"\"\/uploads\/images\/rhyme-and-reason-35.png\" title=\"Rhyme and Reason 35\">the 35th installment<\/a> of <a href=\"\"\/iublog\/categories\/category\/rhyme-and-reason\/\" title=\"Rhyme and Reason -- Amit Varma\">Rhyme and Reason<\/a>, my weekly set of limericks for the <\/i>Sunday Times of India<i> <a href=\"http:\/\/epaperbeta.timesofindia.com\/NasData\/\/PUBLICATIONS\/THETIMESOFINDIA\/AHMEDABAD\/2017\/05\/21\/PagePrint\/21_05_2017_016_18add19adea0dada82d1cd31c72478f4.pdf\">edit page<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>GST <\/p>\n<p>The Goods and Services Tax is here.<br \/>\nMost other taxes will disappear.<br \/>\nOne massive overhaul.<br \/>\nOne tax to rule them all,<br \/>\nTill the slabs and exemptions appear.<\/p>\n<p>OVERDOSE<\/p>\n<p>So much cricket is driving me mad.<br \/>\nThe IPL had seemed just a fad.<br \/>\nCricket is such a bore,<br \/>\nI will watch it no more.<br \/>\n(Except today&#8217;s final, let me add.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3,7,8,10],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>One Tax To Rule Them All - India Uncut<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/one-tax-to-rule-them-all\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"One Tax To Rule Them All - India Uncut\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This is the 35th installment of Rhyme and Reason, my weekly set of limericks for the Sunday Times of India edit page. 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