A tax on bank account savings seemed so strange that I was wondering who could have thought of it.
I then had the opportunity to send a gift to New Zealand. I would not have noticed the exchange rate except that we had received a gift from New Zealand just a year ago. And how I wish the sequence of events was inverted. The New Zealand dollar was worth about Rs. 35 then and about Rs. 45 now :(
So, effectively, I am poorer by almost 30% and I wish I could swap places with Cypriots and pay 10% but only of my bank deposits! But I am sure that paying the 10% would have hurt a lot more than the Indian rupee going downhill :(
I then had the opportunity to send a gift to New Zealand. I would not have noticed the exchange rate except that we had received a gift from New Zealand just a year ago. And how I wish the sequence of events was inverted. The New Zealand dollar was worth about Rs. 35 then and about Rs. 45 now :(
So, effectively, I am poorer by almost 30% and I wish I could swap places with Cypriots and pay 10% but only of my bank deposits! But I am sure that paying the 10% would have hurt a lot more than the Indian rupee going downhill :(
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