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An effective way to stop female foeticide
by RajivRsuman on Jul 24, 2008 09:03 PM   Permalink | Hide replies

My aim of writing all this is to suggest an effective mechanism so that abortion of the female foetus should be discouraged in a natural manner.
Every person (both men and women) having gross annual income Rs 1 lakh or more should be charged 5% male-child tax on his/her gross annual income from all sources throughout his/her life for each male child he has. If a person has two sons, then he must pay 10% male-child tax, for three sons 15% tax of his total annual income, and so on. For every female child 5% of his total annual income should be rewarded (negative tax) to him. Reward will be payable to the person by the income tax dept of India. Fund for reward will be generated by mail child tax. Govt will never have to arrange extra fund for this due to smaller sex ratio of females.

Example-1: A’s gross annual income is Rs 2 lakh. He has one son and one daughter.
Mail child tax due to 1 son = 1 x 5 % of 2 lakhs = Rs 10000/-.
Female child reward due to 1 daughter = 1 x 5 % of 2 lakhs = Rs 10000/-.
Here Mail child tax and Female child reward are equal.

Hence, Mail child tax payable by A = Zero. Female child reward to be paid to A = Zero.


Example-2: B’s gross annual income is Rs 1.5 lakh. He has one son and two daughters.
Mail child tax due to 1 son = 1 x 5 % of 1.5 lakhs = Rs 7500/-.
Female child reward due to 2 daughters = 2 x 5 % of 1.5 lakhs = Rs 15000/-.
Here Female child reward is greater than Mail child tax, hence
Net Female child reward to be paid to

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  RE:An effective way to stop female foeticide
by imran patel on Jul 24, 2008 09:08 PM   Permalink
Are you out of your mind...

A couple cannot decide what they can have.

Lets get the government out of people's bedroom. The only solution is to educate people.

This can be done through schooling, councelling, religious mentoring, etc.

Taxing people for having sons is one of the most insane ideas I have ever heard.

This will make things worse. if people end up spending more to raise their son and their mindset is still the same, they will ask for more dowery.

The challenge is to change the mind-set.

Government involvement and penalizing people for having male children (many times out of their control) is not the solution.

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