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The tax rates proposed for the future in the Direct Taxes Code are generally being welcomed. In this hype, one tends to lose sight of the huge tax burden, hardships and inequities, to which a major section of the taxpayers namely the salary earners is going to be subjected, if the Code is enacted in the present form.

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