As an Indian who came from small town and middle class family, a final level student of chartered accountant profession (equalent of CPA in us and CA in uk) and who worked in audit firm for a period of 3 years as a part of profession, I have to say that article is over generalized. As it said 55% of people whose livelihood is agriculture are out of tax net leaving 45% are being tax I accept it and it is the 1st and main reason why only few people pay tax. They are ignoring a fact that they are saying 2% of India's population 2.7 million out of 1.21 billion population is wrong.Out of 1.21 billion you have to remove unemployed,old aged, teenage kids and one more thing is every Indian family has 4 persons (father,mother and 2 children) where only one person (male/female) is the source of income.Poverty is also a factor.Salaried person are only the honest class from whom the tax is being collected forcefully in the form of Tax deduction at source (means tax is being deducted without income being first reaching you). But things are slowly changing (damn slowly).