India Taxes Health Like a Luxury. This Madness Must Stop!

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Kathryn Rabalais and 19 others have signed recently.

The Issue

India's Tax System is Backward

Junk food that causes diabetes: 5% tax
Gyms that prevent diabetes: 18% tax

We're literally making it cheaper to fall sick than stay healthy.

 

The Brutal Numbers
101 million Indians have diabetes. 315 million have hypertension. 63% of deaths are from diseases we can prevent.

By 2060, obesity will cost India ₹69.6 lakh crore. That's 2.5% of our entire GDP.

More than half of Indians don't exercise enough. We're pricing them out of prevention.

 

Here's the Madness

What gets cheap or tax-free:

Junk food → 5%
Doctor visits → 0%
Hospital treatments → 0%
Surgery → 0%

What gets taxed as luxury:

Gym memberships → 18%
Sports coaching → 18%
Diet counselling → 18%

We want Olympic gold but tax training for a sport like it’s luxury.

We literally tax people for trying to stay out of hospitals.

 

The PM is saying it too! 

From the ramparts of the Red Fort on Independence Day, the PM has called for Fit India, Khelo Bharat, Eat Right India and action against obesity. 

He's been urging the nation to get fit for years. 
The GST Council must listen to him and us NOW. 

Healthcare is free. Prevention costs 18%.

This makes no sense.

 

The Simple Solution

Cut the 18% fitness tax and make it tax-free like healthcare.

Result:

  • Gyms become 18% cheaper instantly
  • Millions of young Indians can afford fitness
  • ₹15 lakh crore added EVERY YEAR to GDP by 2047
  • 110 million lifestyle diseases prevented

Insurance prevents financial ruin. Fitness prevents health ruin. Both deserve fair tax.

 

We've Won Before

FITPASS has brought change before. Twice.

This is our third fight. We know how to win.

Read our story here

 

The PM's Diwali Gift

The PM promised youth a gift before Diwali. Diwali is about good defeating evil.

Make fitness affordable. 
Defeat the evil of preventable lifestyle diseases that kill 63% of Indians.

 

Our Demand

Exempt fitness memberships from the 18% luxury tax

Fitness prevents disease. It's not vanity. It's survival.

1.4 billion Indians deserve affordable prevention.

Sign This

Prevention should cost less than cure.
India's youth shouldn't go broke staying healthy.

Sign. Share. Fight back.

A healthy India starts with fair taxes.

Make this the PM's Diwali gift to India's youth.

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Recent signers:
Kathryn Rabalais and 19 others have signed recently.

The Issue

India's Tax System is Backward

Junk food that causes diabetes: 5% tax
Gyms that prevent diabetes: 18% tax

We're literally making it cheaper to fall sick than stay healthy.

 

The Brutal Numbers
101 million Indians have diabetes. 315 million have hypertension. 63% of deaths are from diseases we can prevent.

By 2060, obesity will cost India ₹69.6 lakh crore. That's 2.5% of our entire GDP.

More than half of Indians don't exercise enough. We're pricing them out of prevention.

 

Here's the Madness

What gets cheap or tax-free:

Junk food → 5%
Doctor visits → 0%
Hospital treatments → 0%
Surgery → 0%

What gets taxed as luxury:

Gym memberships → 18%
Sports coaching → 18%
Diet counselling → 18%

We want Olympic gold but tax training for a sport like it’s luxury.

We literally tax people for trying to stay out of hospitals.

 

The PM is saying it too! 

From the ramparts of the Red Fort on Independence Day, the PM has called for Fit India, Khelo Bharat, Eat Right India and action against obesity. 

He's been urging the nation to get fit for years. 
The GST Council must listen to him and us NOW. 

Healthcare is free. Prevention costs 18%.

This makes no sense.

 

The Simple Solution

Cut the 18% fitness tax and make it tax-free like healthcare.

Result:

  • Gyms become 18% cheaper instantly
  • Millions of young Indians can afford fitness
  • ₹15 lakh crore added EVERY YEAR to GDP by 2047
  • 110 million lifestyle diseases prevented

Insurance prevents financial ruin. Fitness prevents health ruin. Both deserve fair tax.

 

We've Won Before

FITPASS has brought change before. Twice.

This is our third fight. We know how to win.

Read our story here

 

The PM's Diwali Gift

The PM promised youth a gift before Diwali. Diwali is about good defeating evil.

Make fitness affordable. 
Defeat the evil of preventable lifestyle diseases that kill 63% of Indians.

 

Our Demand

Exempt fitness memberships from the 18% luxury tax

Fitness prevents disease. It's not vanity. It's survival.

1.4 billion Indians deserve affordable prevention.

Sign This

Prevention should cost less than cure.
India's youth shouldn't go broke staying healthy.

Sign. Share. Fight back.

A healthy India starts with fair taxes.

Make this the PM's Diwali gift to India's youth.

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