The accountability, tax survey and recovery of loans and utility bills are pinching them for the first time. They are being forced to part with some of the ill-gotten gains they had made and their reaction is that of wrath and hostility. The big landlords have, also for the first time, been unsuccessful in thwarting the imposition of agriculture income tax.
The avenue for leakages in non-agriculture income tax has been closed by clubbing the incomes from both sources. So this is a double whammy for a very influential group which has so far enjoyed the corridors of power without any restraint on their wealth accumulation or sharing it with the State.