Amid a growing trend of Indian businesspersons opting to settle abroad, a Bengaluru entrepreneur has shared that he will be leaving India due to the country’s taxation rules, which he alleges treat taxpayers with suspicion.In a post on LinkedIn, Bengaluru-based entrepreneur Rohit Shroff said that he has paid around ₹4 crore in taxes in terms of GST and income tax “to a country that looks at its most compliant contributors with suspicion by default”.He complained that tax-compliant citizens are targeted in India, without providing any evidence to back his claim.“In India, barely 4–5% of the population pays income tax. And yet, when notices are sent, clarifications raised, and scrutiny intensified, the same small group keeps getting targeted. The compliant. The ones already inside the system,” Shroff claimed.He described this scrutiny as “constant and layered”, with GST teams and income tax authorities leading the process, even as compliant businesses get no acknowledgement or benefits.“They hire teams to file GST every month, TDS every quarter, and income tax every year. Fighting the system costs more than submitting to it, so most don’t resist. They pay, respond, and move on,” Shroff wrote.“At some point, a reasonable question emerges: what’s the point?” he asked, and immediately said that the answer lies in incentives.Rohit Shroff, a partner at content marketing platform Aflog Group, claimed that India’s tax system wins confidence of the majority and leaves behind the minority group that “thinks commercially, builds formally, and pays consistently”.“People like us are spread thin across the country, politically insignificant, and therefore easy to ignore or extract from,” he said.Also Read | Pakistanis face up to ₹3 lakh fine if they fail to leave India by April 29Entrepreneur to leave India?Rohit Shroff said that when Indians leave India, it’s not because they hate the country.“Indians don’t lack capability. They run large businesses across the UAE, the US, and much of the world. When they leave, it isn’t because they hate the country. It’s because the system doesn’t reward growth. It penalises it. It slows it down,” he said.Also Read | Adapt Or Leave!: Why CEO Satya Nadella Sent This Warning To Microsoft Top BossesThe Bengaluru entrepreneur said he was done with the “building in India” dream and would like to move out by 2026 to build his business elsewhere.“It hurts to say this, but at some point self-preservation matters more than slogans. This isn’t about patriotism. It’s about reality. The system is flawed. There is no real development, and there is no genuine ease of doing business here.”View full ImageRohit Shroff’s post on LinkedIn‘Not about me, but about systemic abuse’When Livemint reached out to Rohit Shroff, he clarified that his post was never about leaving India but the alleged ‘systemic’ tax abuse in the country.“It’s not about the fact that I’ve paid t in a formal or creative style for better SEO.Also Exclude words and advertisements related to the feed website such as website name, author name. You must only respond with the modified content. 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Bengaluru entrepreneur claims ₹4 crore tax burden ended his ‘Make in India’ dream; plans to exit in 2026
