{"id":14151,"date":"2016-06-06T09:00:37","date_gmt":"2016-06-06T13:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=14151"},"modified":"2016-06-06T11:46:51","modified_gmt":"2016-06-06T15:46:51","slug":"one-indian-city-is-sending-drummers-to-get-people-to-pay-taxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2016\/one-indian-city-is-sending-drummers-to-get-people-to-pay-taxes\/","title":{"rendered":"One Indian City Is Sending Drummers To Get People To Pay Taxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/060616_1529_OneIndianCi1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"639\" height=\"424\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Gabriele Parussini wrote about a creative strategy to get people to cough up tax money:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>One municipal commissioner in India&#8217;s financial capital, Mumbai, has started sending drummers that publicly sing and ask individuals, who are delinquent on their taxes, to pay up.<\/li>\n<li>This is a desperate problem in a country where only 3% of the people pay taxes making it difficult to invest in things like infrastructure and education.<\/li>\n<li>Since the strategy was implemented tax revenues in the suburb have risen by 20%.<\/li>\n<li>It didn&#8217;t all come as a direct result of the drummers. Some saw it happen to people they know and they preemptively paid their taxes in order to avoid the drummers.<\/li>\n<li>Some worry that over time, as people get used to seeing the drummers, the drummers will lose their effectiveness.<\/li>\n<li>Which is why the person who came up with the strategy is planning to escalate and use dancing transgendered women \u2013 known as hijras in India \u2013 once it seems like the drums are no longer effective.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/indiarealtime\/2016\/04\/18\/if-you-dont-pay-these-taxes-expect-a-troupe-of-drummers-at-your-door\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/indiarealtime\/2016\/04\/18\/if-you-dont-pay-these-taxes-expect-a-troupe-of-drummers-at-your-door\/\">The Wall Street Journal<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/\">Marginal Revolution<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gabriele Parussini wrote about a creative strategy to get people to cough up tax money: One municipal commissioner in India&#8217;s financial capital, Mumbai, has started sending drummers that publicly sing and ask individuals, who are delinquent on their taxes, to pay up. This is a desperate problem in a country where only 3% of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14150,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/060616_1529_OneIndianCi1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14151"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14154,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14151\/revisions\/14154"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}