DHARMA AND DUTY - TAX LESSONS FROM THE MAHABHARATA

von Bijoy Das

72 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Every tax law asks the same question the Mahabharata asks across eighteen books and eighteen days of war: what do you owe, to whom, and what happens when you don't pay it?Dharma and Duty takes nine pivotal episodes from India's greatest epic - Yudhishthira's exile, Karna's conditional boons, the fateful game of dice, Arjuna's legendary focus, Draupadi's demand for a fair share, Krishna's counsel on the battlefield, the war itself, Ashwatthama's endless curse, and Yudhishthira's final test at heaven's gate - and places each one beside a real concept from Indian tax and financial law: filing deadlines, conditional exemptions, undisclosed income, accurate reconciliation, transfer pricing, professional advisory, dispute resolution, amnesty schemes, and GAAR.Written by a practicing tax professional with over a decade of hands-on experience in Direct Tax, GST, and International Taxation, this book doesn't just explain what the law requires - it explains why, using stories most Indian readers already carry in their bones. Each chapter follows the same structure: the story, the concept, a real-world scenario showing it in practice, and a practical takeaway you can actually use.Whether you're a CA student trying to make a provision stick in memory, a taxpayer curious why the rules are shaped the way they are, or simply someone who loves the Mahabharata and wants to see it in a new light - this book offers a genuinely different way into both.Dharma was never a rulebook handed down complete. It was a standard people spent lifetimes trying to live up to. Tax compliance asks for something smaller: the same discipline, one filing at a time.

• Reihe: Independently published
• ISBN: 9798176392852
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 22.09.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Independently published