Ahead of the Union Budget which will be presented on Wednesday February 1, Mahindra Mutual Funds started a conversation on Twitter with the hashtag ‘Taxes Acche Hain.’
The budget is expected to reveal insights on the much awaited Goods and Service Tax (GST) regime.
Mahindra’s hashtag trended on the micro-blogging websites’ Mumbai trends on Monday with a total of 4,470 tweets in just two days.
The company began the conversation with a tweet that said, “#TaxesAccheHain – Some agree, some don’t but everyone has a right to opinion.”
A mixture between the slogan for the Bharatiya Janta Party’s 2014 election campaign and Surf Excel’s tagline ‘Daag ache hain,’ garnered twitteratis’ attention and their opinions were as follows.
Saying #TaxesAccheHain is like saying vegans are better than vegetarians. It's a neverending debate IMHO & the decision swings either way
The Govt. is relentlessly Burning away your tax money. Spending someone else's money on someone else! With NO TRANSPARENCY #TaxesAccheHainpic.twitter.com/4uV3ooVtxB
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