Fiscal Federalism In Indian Union

This Book Attempts To Assess The Functional Domain And Financial Health Of Urban Local Bodies In Most Of The States In India Where Finance Commissions Have Submitted Their Reports.

This book provides a detailed description and analysis of the evolution and the present nature of fiscal federalism in India. It examines the existing arrangements for intergovernmental financial transfers, the role of Finance Commission and the Planning Commission in effecting these transfers, particularly the principles followed by these agencies to reduce vertical and horizontal imbalances in the availability of resources to various tiers of government in India. Current problems and controversies besetting Centre-State financial relations are highlighted from various viewpoints.

Likening fiscal federalism to a game between the Union and the States, and among the States themselves, Indian Fiscal Federalism lays bare the complex rules of play. It examines the pivotal role of Finance Commissions and assesses momentous events since 2014, such as the replacement of the Planning Commission by NITI Aayog, the emergence of the GST Council, and the controversies surrounding the Fifteenth Finance Commission. States, and among the States themselves, Indian Fiscal Federalism lays bare the complex rules of play. It examines the pivotal role of Finance Commissions and assesses momentous events since 2014, such as the replacement of the Planning Commission by NITI Aayog, the emergence of the GST Council, and the controversies surrounding the Fifteenth Finance Commission. A contemporary, timely, and comprehensive analysis of fiscal federalism in India, this practitioners’ perspective is a must-read for all those interested in the subject.

This book reviews Centre-State relations in India and the evolution of this relationship over the last fifty years as seen from the perspective of the ten Finance Commissions.

This is a comprehensive work on India's fiscal federalism. The book surveys and analyses the evolution of fiscal federalism from the angle of political economy and brings to bear analytical skills of a very high order to assess and relate the political and administrative dimensions of India's federal system to fiscal federal issues. The authors present a synthesized framework, combining both economic and political elements in a political economy prism such as the Cente–State relations with not only the political perspectives but also the economic ones with the belief that only such a framework can provide a useful guide to implementable reform of policies.

Fiscal federalism deals with financial arrangements and their working in a federal polity. In India, federalism is not only a unifying force, but also a levelling up force, because considerable economic inequalities exist among different states of India. This book provides broad contours - including historical evolution - of fiscal relations between the central and state governments in India. The book explains operational aspects of fiscal federalism in India. More importantly, it empirically examines the effects of federal transfers on tax efforts of 14 major Indian states. The analysis has been done in the context of the use of tax efforts as a criterion for inter-se distribution of the states' share of central revenues by various finance commissions. The book provides an in-depth understanding of the two vital concepts of tax effort and tax capacity and the alternative quantitative techniques that can be employed to estimate them.

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