India's GST is still an incomplete story, as a large share of sales pertaining to petroleum products, agricultural products, electricity, and real estate remains outside its purview.
With the continuing downslide of inflation, the central and state
governments may be looking at falling buoyancy of their tax revenues
even in 2015/16, writes DK Srivastava.
Chances are next to nil that the revenue targets can be met. Further, the central government has rarely succeeded in meeting disinvestment targets and some slippage is quite likely.
Ernst & Young's D. K . Srivastava says the right time to de-administer oil prices is when international crude oil prices are softening. Given the recessionary world economic situation, there may b...