Taiwan in 1951 came up with an ingenious plan to improve tax compliance: citizens taking receipts for purchases could use them as lottery tickets. Customers were incentivized, and businesses found it hard to evade taxes. The plan’s success prompted other countries, Slovakia and Greece among them, to launch similar initiatives. India doesn’t seem to find the need yet for such schemes amid surging goods and services tax (GST) collections.
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