R. Kavita Rao
Director
- Email director@nipfp.org.in
- Phone Phone 26569303, 26963421, Fax: 91-11-26512703, Extn.110

Research areas
Design and implementation of Goods and Services Taxes (GST), Impact of tax incentives, Perceptions on tax compliance & implications.
Recent publications
- (2022), "GST, End of Compensation Regime and Stress on State Finances", In Uma Kapila (ed.), Economic Development in India. Volume 258, Academic Foundation.
- (2022), "Income Tax data and Facets of transparency", NIPFP Working Paper No. 384, May, 2022
- (2022), "India - The Economy as Reflected in Income Tax Data", In IBFD: Asia-Pacific Tax Bulletin April 2022 (Volume 28), No. 1.
- (2021), "The Economy as Reflected in Income Tax Data", NIPFP Working Paper No. 330
- (2019), "Book on “Evolution of Goods and Services Tax (GST) in India", jointly with Sacchidananda Mukherjee New Delhi: Cambridge University Press.
Membership in committees and commissions
- Member, Committee for 10th Integrated Rating Exercise of Power Distribution Utilities constituted by Ministry of Power, Government, 2022.
- Member, Study Group on Special Economic Zone (SEZ), Directorate General of Export Promotion, GoI.
- Member, Committee on Revenue Neutral Rates for State GST & Central GST and place of supply rates, Empowered Committee of State Finance Ministries.