Sacchidananda Mukherjee
Professor
- Email sacchidananda.mukherjee@nipfp.org.in sachs.mse@gmail.com
- Phone 26569303 Ext - 132
Dr Sacchidananda Mukherjee is Professor at the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP). NIPFP is one of the premiere think tanks in Asia working on public finance and fiscal policy issues. Before joining NIPFP, he was with International Water Management Institute (IWMI), Hyderabad and World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)-India, New Delhi. His areas of research include public finance and fiscal policy in general and Goods and Services Tax (GST), Value Added Tax (VAT), Performance Assessment of Tax Administration, Restructuring and Reorganization of Tax Administration, Tax Compliance Behaviour, Revenue Potential Estimation, Tax and Non-Tax Revenue Mobilization in particular. Dr Mukherjee has studied at the Madras School of Economics, Chennai (Ph.D. in Environmental Economics from University of Madras) and Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi (M.A. in Economics). He has published papers in national and international journals of repute.
Research areas
Public Finance, Environmental and Resource Economics, Water Resources Management, Development Economics, Statistics and Applied Econometrics
Key words: Goods and Services Tax (GST), Value Added Tax (VAT), Performance Assessment of Tax Administration, Tax Effort, Restructuring and Reorganization of Tax Administration, Tax Compliance Behaviour, Revenue Potential Estimation, Tax and Non-Tax Revenue Mobilization.
Current research
- Innovation in Public Finance, commissioned by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF), Member - Research Team
- Fiscal Implications of Introduction of Goods and Services Tax, commissioned by Fifteenth Finance Commission, Member – Research Team.
Recent publications
- (2023), "Distributional Impact of Indian GST", NIPFP Working Paper No. 403
- (2023), "Revenue Performance Assessment of Indian GST", NIPFP Working Paper No. 392
- (2023), "Revenue Implications of GST on Indian State Finances", NIPFP Working Paper No 388
- (2022), "Analysis of State Budgets 2022-23 of Major States in India", NIPFP Working Paper No. 386
- (2022), "Exploring a Design of Carbon Tax for Coal and Lignite based Thermal Power Sector in India", NIPFP Working Paper No. 382
Professional activities
Recent Projects Completed:
- Developing a mechanism for computing the value of Social Services Obligation (SSO) being borne by Indian Railways
- Comprehensive Study of Assam State Finances: Tax and Non-Tax Revenue Mobilisation
- Study on Bihar State Finance – Policy options for tax rationalization and mobilization of revenue
- Development of an Analytical Model for Widening of Taxpayers’ Base
- Study on Unaccounted Income/Wealth both Inside and Outside the Country
Lectures Delivered:
- Macro Economic Policies, Public Finance and Principles of Taxation
- Decades of Indirect Tax Reforms in India: A Journey towards Goods and Services Tax (GST)
- Taxation: Impacts, Shifting and Incidence
- Theory and Principles of Taxation
- Goods and Services Tax (GST) in India: An Introduction
- Goods and Services Tax (GST): Opportunities and Challenges
- Structure of Indirect Taxes in India
- Structure of Taxes in India
- GST in Petroleum Sector: Revenue Neutrality and States’ Concerns
- Environmental Challenges in Times of Globalization – A Macro Perspective
- Taxation and Challenges in Revenue Policy
- Analysing the Impact of Taxes through Input-output Models
- Issues and Challenges in State Resource Mobilization
- India: Energy Taxation Issues
- Environmental Accounting
Other information
Recent Publications:
- “Evolution of Goods and Services Tax (GST) in India” (Co-author: R. Kavita Rao), New Delhi: Cambridge University Press, 2019
- “Value Added Tax and Informality: Determinants of Registration of Enterprises under State VAT in India" (Co-author: R. Kavita Rao), Margin—The Journal of Applied Economic Research, 13(1): 21–48.
- “VAT Efficiency across Indian States: Panel Stochastic Frontier Analysis”, Economic and Political Weekly (forthcoming).
- “Estimating Unaccounted Income in India: Using Transport as a Universal Input” (Co-author: R. Kavita Rao), Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 52, Issue No. 7 (18 February 2017), pp. 107-115.
- “Environmental Challenges in Asia” (Co-author: D. Chakraborty), in Sara Hsu (ed.), Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Development in Asia, Chapter 4, pp. 66-90, Routledge: U.K. & U.S.A. 4 June 2018.
- “State of Public Finance and Fiscal Management in India during 2001-16”, Working Paper No. 265, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP), New Delhi, May 2019.
- “Inter-Governmental Fiscal Transfers in the Presence of Revenue Uncertainty: The Case of Goods and Services Tax (GST) in India”, Working Paper No. 255, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP), New Delhi, March 2019.
- “Exploring Low-Carbon Energy Security Path for India: Role of Asia-Pacific Energy Cooperation”, Working Paper No. 259, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP), New Delhi, April 2019.
- GST still searching for stability in India – East Asia Forum, 10 May 2019. Online access: https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2019/05/10/gst-still-searching-for-stability-in-india/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter2019-05-12
PROFILES
- IDEAS RePEc: https://ideas.repec.org/e/pmu174.html
- Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=FQ-I6-0AAAAJ&hl=en
- ORCID ID: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7835-232X
- ResearchGate: http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sacchidananda_Mukherjee
- academia.edu: http://nipfp.academia.edu/SacchidanandaMukherjee
- ResearcherID: http://www.researcherid.com/rid/B-8888-2013