Praveen Chakravarty writes: GST centralised India’s indirect taxation. It is time to start a national discussion on reversing the course by giving states powers for direct taxation...
States should get direct taxation powers, extension of revenue guarantee, says Praveen Chakravarty, Chairman of the Congress Data Analytics Department...
Fixing India’s ailing GST does not merely entail technical measures to boost tax buoyancy but also re-establishing trust between the Union and states...
Had there been a proportional representation of voting in the GST council either as a proportion of the size of a state or by its contribution to the GST revenue pool, Covid products would have been...
The fundamental problem is the erosion of ‘trust’ and ‘trustworthiness’ between the States and the Centre...
US conducts its presidential election with 50 different rules for 50 states. As C. Rajagopalachari had said, uniformity is not unity...
“The credibility of the GST Council and the larger idea of cooperative federalism can still be salvaged if the Centre can shed its cussedness...
The Government of India’s position on the standoff between the federal government and the states on the issue of the Goods and Services...
The union government and states are squabbling over the Goods & Services Tax (GST)...