So because of the salary we make here in India each month we have had 30% of our salary taken out in to pay Indian tax. That is a nice chunk of money. Well recently we found out we get that money back due to the duration of our time here. Evidently we weren’t here long enough or something, I don’t really care why, we just get it back.

This made most of us really excited because we have made so little money here to begin with. Many of us, I know, are going to be scraping for cash for the first month or two trying to get adjusted to American cost of living while only have made Indian salary for the last six months.

Well today we applied for something called a PAN card. It is needed to file for tax returns I think. Many of us aren’t sure what is really going on, we aren’t really educated about any of it, we are just told what to do. One of the requirements was a passport sized photo, which most of us had because we were told to bring so many with us to India. However, after taking the pictures in with our application, we found out that our passport sized photos were about 2 times as big as they wanted. So we all had to get new pictures taken.

After being jerked around for almost 6 months in India, especially within the last couple weeks, my friends and I decided to have some fun with our pictures. Keep in mind, these are for official Internal Tax Department (Government) forms.

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