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As Rama Murthy completes the sale of his apartment in the Indian city of Hyderabad, he accepts from the buyer a bag full of rupees—part of the purchase price the tax man will never see. “Almost 40 percent of the sale price I got in hard cash,” says Murthy, 39, who works at a software company. “It’s illegal, but it’s rampant in India to avoid paying tax.” 在Rama Murthy完成了他在Hyderabad的房产交易后，他从买家那里得到一袋钱——这部分钱收税人将永远见不到。Murthy是一个软件公司的雇员，他说他的交易中有40%的直接现金支付的，这是非法的，但是这在印度很流行。 India loses 14 trillion rupees ($314 billion) from tax evasion annually, depriving it of funds for investment in roads, ports, and power, says Arun Kumar, author of The Black Economy in India. General government tax revenue is an estimated 18 percent of India’s $1.5 trillion in gross domestic product, the lowest among the four BRIC nations, International Monetary Fund data show. With so little revenue coming in, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is now attempting India’s biggest overhaul of the tax code in half a century. 印度黑色经济的作者Arun Kumar说印度每年有14万亿折合美元3140亿逃税额，这些逃税额都只能从道路，港口和能源等等方面扣除。IMF的数据显示印度的政府财政收入只有1.5万亿GDP的18%，是金砖四国的最低值。在这么低的税率下，印度的首相MAnmohan Singh将在印度进行一次最大的税率制度改革，这是半世纪以来的第一次。 | 
