{"id":1006065,"date":"2026-04-30T12:05:44","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T06:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1006065"},"modified":"2026-04-30T12:49:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T07:19:22","slug":"amazon-techie-asks-where-his-tax-money-is-going-broken-roads-toxic-air-no-social-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/30\/amazon-techie-asks-where-his-tax-money-is-going-broken-roads-toxic-air-no-social-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon techie asks where his tax money is going: \u2018Broken roads, toxic air, no social security\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Amazon employee expressed frustration over high tax deductions and infrastructure concerns in India. In an anonymous Grapevine post, the techie said that his April payslip left him shocked, as the TDS (tax dedicated at source) was more than his father\u2019s last-drawn salary.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust checked my April payslip and my head is literally spinning. The TDS cut alone is more than my dad&#8217;s last drawn salary before he retired,\u201d the Amazon techie said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Amazon employee expressed frustration over high tax deductions and infrastructure concerns in India. In an anonymous Grapevine post, the techie said that his April payslip left him shocked, as the TDS (tax dedicated at source) was more than his father\u2019s last-drawn salary. \u201cJust checked my April payslip and my head is literally spinning. The TDS cut alone is more than my dad&#8217;s last drawn salary before he retired,\u201d the Amazon techie said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,51,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1006065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-it-2-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1006065"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1006066,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006065\/revisions\/1006066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1006065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1006065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1006065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}