Entertainment Tax

Hola people,
the city of mumbai continues to amaze me...have you all ever wondered why over thas few years mumbai is dying when it comes to being the showbiz mecca of India.

Well guess who is to blame?
The Entertainment Tax Department.

And if you thought that having the law in place and doing things by the book would cut you some slack-YOU ARE SO WRONG!

So how does it all work....
Lets say you wanna do a show and call xyz band to come and play at a concert you are organizing for 10000 people.
You price the tickets at 2500 rupees each.
SO the rule in place courtesy our wonderful government is you need to pay 25% of the ticket value + a10% security deposit on the price of every ticket you sell (unlike earlier where it was dealt with after the show was completed). So well if you don't sell 10000 tickets-your bad luck, you still need to pay a tax on all the tickets AND they in turn stamp every ticket.

Now you would think that this will allow for a successful event- YOU ARE SO WRONG!!!

Guess what even before the event starts, they will have their men come by your show-pot bellys that boast of corruption and try to create a racket by having you sign paperwork which binnds you to pay them more money. You are expected at this time to do the under table thingie (you know like the police who raid your party and say stop the music and u hush them away with a crate of fosters....you know what i mean?). The long and the short is they just never stop eating.

Honestly i mean it is so sad.....we are just so messed up. And then we wonder why no performers want to perform here.....YOU KNOW NOW......JAAGO INDIA JAAGO.