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A proper examination of the states' tax efforts is necessary for the creation of appropriate and reasonable criteria for resource transfers from the center to the states, as well as to encourage states to mobilize resources for development plans in their own sources. In India, most of the...
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There is a growing recognition that fundamental changes are happening in Indian fiscal federalism ex post the abolition of the Planning Commission, the creation of the National Institution for Transforming India (NITI) Aayog, the constitutional amendment to introduce the Goods and Services Tax...
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case for state VAT in India has been advocated mainly on the grounds of higher revenue efficiency vis-à-vis the combined … revenue, its buoyancy, and efficiency of states sales tax/value added tax. …
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The public managers worries to increase the local government revenues are almost always related with changes in the tax rates, affecting all the agents in the economy. However, at the same time tax exemptions are used like policy instrument in order to achieve economic growth in some sectors,...
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Compliance Costs in Developed Countries varied between 3.91 percent of tax revenue in the UK in 1986-87 to between 7.9 to 10.8 percent in Australia in the 1990s. Compliance costs are incurred by taxpayers but also third parties who collect taxes (e.g. tax withholders) or who are required to...
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In this article, I have started with the introduction, in general of GST and have tried to highlight the objectives the proposed GST is trying to achieve. Thereafter, I have discussed the possible challenges and threats; and then, opportunities that GST brings before us to strengthen our free...
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In India an important policy initiative has been the devolution of financial responsibilities to village level local governments called the Panchayats. The Preamble to this initiative is two fold. First such devolution would not only lead to increased public expenditure but also such...
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of municipalities (NUTS 5 level). The research covered budgets of all urban-rural municipalities of Lower Silesian … Voivodeship in the years 1996-2014. The source of data on the revenues of municipalities were databases of the Central Statistical … Office. The structure of municipalities revenues was analysed, considering among others the distribution of share in own …
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