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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Federalism, now a partisan internal dialogue -Sukumar Muralidharan

Federalism, now a partisan internal dialogue -Sukumar Muralidharan

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published Published on Oct 13, 2020   modified Modified on Oct 13, 2020

-The Hindu

India could be living through a reprise of the ‘Congress system’, but with significant differences in the BJP’s re-enactment

At the first signs of stress, the grand vision of a nation unified in a singular system of taxation, was supplanted by a policy of every-state-for-itself. Just over three years ago, the introduction of a unified “goods and services tax” (GST) was heralded by a midnight session of Parliament, a theatrical invocation of India’s 1947 “tryst with destiny”. It was a moment of seeming vindication for the vision of a nation united in its singularity, which the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Prime Minister Narendra Modi have made their own.

Miscued estimates

The triumphalism lived on, but only in the alternative world created by BJP acolytes in the media. In the real world, evidence of seriously miscued revenue estimates, premised upon an ideological rather than pragmatic tax rate, was accumulating at an alarming pace.

The Comptroller and Auditor-General of India (CAG) recently revealed how a cess meant to remedy shortfalls in GST yields, was retained in central government revenues, in violation of all applicable norms. This revelation does little to build trust at a time when the States’ treasuries are running dry and the central government is gratuitously advising them to borrow on the strength of its guarantee. States ruled by the BJP are willing to go along, but others believe that the onus of borrowing should rest with the central government, given that it is the absolute sovereign and enjoys vastly greater taxation rights.

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The Hindu, 13 October, 2020, https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/federalism-now-a-partisan-internal-dialogue/article32837837.ece?homepage=true


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