While I can squint and say that iPhones are probably a luxury item, and hence worthy of higher taxes, these exorbitant taxes extend to laptops as well. I'm agai

While I can squint and say that iPhones are probably a luxury item, and hence worthy of higher taxes, these exorbitant taxes extend to laptops as well. I'm again not talking about Macbooks, just a cheap ASUS I might need for work or study. This I think is indeed counterproductive, considering that bulk of India's GDP comes from the services industry. Enabling the populace to acquire computing resources cheaply will help if the powers that be want to establish a knowledge economy.