There is a pantheon of cess and surcharges imposed on taxpayers.

The GST Is an Important, Limited First Step

Twenty-nine states are now working under the same, centralised Goods and Services Tax, but most seem ill-prepared for the tidal wave of economic disorder it seems likely to bring

India is the only large country in the world that is experiencing subnational income divergence

Why do only 3% of Indians pay tax?

The article reflects on the unique opportunity to repair and restructure governance in the wake of GST 

In this The Indian Express article, Praveen Chakravarty, Visiting Senior Fellow at IDFC Institute, with Ajit Ranade explain how scrapping of tax treaty with Mauritius will boost India's tax reform agenda. ...

IDFC Institute Visiting Fellow Renuka Sane writes in Indian Express: "Pension reform is important. But next time, Centre must put in more rigour."

In the long run, the government will choose to tax more, if it wishes to spend more. That appetite seems lacking at present.

Vivek Dehejia argues in his Mint article that, "A fixation on inequality is sheer folly for an economy in which the problem is poverty, a matter of absolute deprivation"