Hyderabadi

I never knew having a car is a miserable experience. I wanted to transport my car from chennai. I have a ford Ikon bought a year and half ago.

I enquired if there are any policies on drving my own car in hyderabad. Pat came reply from my colleague, boss, take care of the entry tax and road tax. I asked him what are they?

Seems, any car from outside the AP region has to pay road tax and entry tax.  he scared the hell out of me saying i need to pay 21% in total.

for people in hyd money is not at all a point of discussion. I have spoken to couple of hyderabadis about money and they speak 1 lakh as 1 re. I admire their capacity but gets scared with people like this.

anyway, after lots of delibrations and talking to many people i have been told that it wud be only 9% (9% of 400,000 = 36000) . And the only is costing me around 36000. I dont know who told that money is not grown on trees. I can bring my car legally only if money grows on trees or someone pays me charity.

Still waiting for my car transportation and deliberation of whether to bring it or not.

29th october was a friday and i was reminded by my friend(s) that i had to file my tax. You know, its a year long ritual. Ever year on the same day one or other friend of mine would wake me up and say boss!! do it otherwise you would be paying fine for not filing.

I dont know who invented this. As every salaried individual know, even you had paid your taxes as a responsible citizen you still got to stand in a queue and does not make a diff if you are paying a 1 Re/- tax or 100,000 Rs/= tax.

So anyway called up a consultant, i thot will file it in hyd. This guy walks into my office says sir, you have to pay another 52000/= tax. I was shocked , man!! i dont even earn that much and paying this is huge.

I called up my auditor in chennai and told him.. Anna!! this guys are taking me for a ride. He cross verified and said no!! dont worry just file your papers no need to pay anything more and the sections 234 (a,b,c,d,e...z) would take care of the remaining.

Got relieved. but by then getting this confirmation, came the 30th evening. So i cant trace anymore consultant. Since sunday is the last day and i was expecting huge snake lines of people standing there to file.

Was scared and asked hte cab driver to drive me to the hotel sarovar, adarsh nagar, next to MLA buildings. This guy does not know where the income tax office is. I was feeling jealous.

Went to the building and saw all the counters virtually empty. I was shocked, pinched myself and asked the security is this the Income tax office? he say haan sir!! i was very happy. Went in and spoke to the person in the counter. He said sir, aapka papers tie nahi kiya. woh karko aao..

Went to a lady sitting there , she tried to confuse me, how can someone confuse a confused soul . So did not matter a damn to me and neither to her.

tied the papers and went to the counter and gave the papers.

the guy in the pc said, PAN number is wrong.

Arre yaar, i had been using this PAN since i was 21 and it cannot be wrong. I told him boss!! type it correctly you would have typed it wrongly.

again saw and said sorry sir your pan number does not exist.

the next guy asked are you filing it for the first time in hyd

yes!! i filed last 5 years in chennai. This is the first time in hyd. And proved him by showing my pan card that my pan number is correct. So, they took it on the face value and they accepted my returns.

Wow!! i never knew filing was such a simple process, i think i will do my filing from next year by myself before the due date !! what the heck if there is no crowd on the due date i wud do it on the last day. Who cares a damn?

Came down to hyd on monday morning. So went to the Guest house in Anand Nagar , looked posh enof. Thot, its going to be fun. Full of happiness and looking forward to go to office. The clock struck nine and the cab was there in the gate to pick me up.

Told him, Boss!! office chalna hai.. some quadrant in the Cyber towers. aapko pata hai office kahan hai?

Ok Sir, i will take you there (probs he understood that i cant converse properly in hindi). Went to office. Met someone in the admin, started to do my formalities.

Went to see around whats happening outside the office there was some construction going on the flavours with subway written, thot subway is gonna come there. So food will not be a problem.

Being a vegetarian and a contintenalist (my word for non-indian food eaters) makes life even more interesting.

Stayed back in office for almost 10 hours , left office by 6 pm. What to do first day as usual lifestyle!!

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