Publication date

जन, 2006

Details

Report submitted to the Ministry of Finance

Authors

A. L. Nagar, Sanjay Kumar, Sayan Samanta

Abstract

The study examines the effectiveness of direct tax administration in India through an econometric model, taking into account the tax collections. It constructs a tax enforcement index treating enforcement as a latent variable through principal component analysis, and attempts policy recommendations for improving the efficiency and effectiveness of tax administration. The paper takes tax rates as given. It does not attempt designing the tax administration; rather focuses only on the effectiveness of tax administration.