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Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi. (Photo: Mohan Charan Majhi/X)
Odisha Thursday demanded an summation successful states’ stock of cardinal taxes to 50 per cent from the existing 41 per cent. Odisha, which has sought Rs 12.59 lakh crore successful cardinal taxes for the play 2026-31, joins states specified arsenic Gujarat and Tamil Nadu successful making the demand.
CM Mohan Charan Majhi, on with elder officers, met the concern committee headed by Arvind Panagariya to question an summation successful its stock successful cardinal taxes to 4.96 percent from the existent 4.52 percent recommended by the erstwhile concern commission. It besides demanded inclusion of cess and surcharge successful divisible excavation truthful states tin person their stock successful it.
“Overuse of cess and surcharges request to beryllium contained, and the 16th Finance Commission whitethorn see suggesting stricter tests for the cess and surcharges to suffice for exclusion from the divisible pool, done a law amendment, if necessary,” a memorandum presented by the authorities authorities earlier the committee said.
The concern committee headed by Panagariya is presently connected a four-day sojourn to Odisha arsenic portion of its sojourn to assorted states. According to Panagariya, states specified arsenic Kerala, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, Punjab and Goa person suggested an summation successful the states’ stock successful cardinal taxes to 50%.
According to the memorandum, Odisha suggested that a modified colonisation adaptable – specified arsenic the stock of susceptible colonisation including SC and ST, and those requiring peculiar attraction similar radical supra 80 years of property and widows without immoderate enactment — should beryllium utilized successful the taxation devolution look alternatively of the full population.
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