Is the GST Council Being Undermined by the Union Government, or Underleveraged by the States? - Kashmir Life

India’s GST Council reshaped fiscal federalism through shared sovereignty, yet rising cesses, weak state coordination, and institutional gaps threaten to tilt the balance back toward centralisation. GST, Income Tax, Accounting, India’s Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council stands as one of the most ambitious institutional experiments in the country’s post-independence economic history. Conceived no…