Law and Parliamentary Affairs Minister H.Ok. Patil talking within the Legislative Assembly.
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Taking the Karnataka authorities’s current protest in Delhi in opposition to alleged injustice by the Centre within the devolution of funds to the subsequent stage, the Legislative Assembly on Thursday adopted a decision condemning what it referred to as the “step-motherly attitude of the Centre which is destroying the State’s economy by causing huge financial losses by denying it the rightful share of taxes, Central funds, and drought as well as flood relief”.
The decision was adopted by a voice vote amid vociferous dharna by the Opposition members who tore off copies of the decision.
The decision, which was tabled by Law and Parliamentary Affairs Minister H.Ok. Patil, stated, “Karnataka has suffered a huge cumulative loss of ₹ 1,87,867 crore from 2017-18 due to unscientific GST system, cheating in its tax share by the Centre through increase in cess and surcharges, failure to provide special allocation as recommended by the 15th Finance Commission and 23% reduction in allocation to the State by the 15th Finance Commission.”
The decision stated that it was a matter of concern that the Centre had not given even a single paisa from the Disaster Relief Fund for dealing with drought and floods although it had statutory backing.
The decision additional stated, “In the last decade, ever since the BJP-led NDA came to power at the Centre, people of Karnataka have noticed several instances of injustice and bias in releasing grants recommended by the Finance Commissions and the Central share of drought relief as per norms and granting development projects.”
It noticed that “failure of the Centre to follow principles of minimum natural justice that it should not cause injustice to the well-developed States along with the concept of providing more allocation to the poor and underdeveloped States has delivered a serious blow to development of progressive States like Karnataka.”
It alleged that Karnataka had misplaced its tax share of ₹62,098 crore because the fifteenth Finance Commission had lowered its share by 1.066%. It accused the fifteenth Finance Commission of meting out severe injustice to a progressive State like Karnataka by following unscientific norms although the State had taken strict measures to manage inhabitants apart from making certain disciplined monetary administration.
‘Unscientific’ GST
Accusing the Centre of imposing the GST underneath a one-nation, one-tax system in an unscientific method and with out an environment friendly tax coverage, the decision alleged that the whole tax assortment within the nation which stood at round ₹6.47 lakh crore earlier had crashed to a stage of simply ₹2.5 lakh crore after the introduction of the GST. Karnataka too had seen a discount of 30% in its tax assortment whereas the Centre’s assurance of the GST regime boosting the revenues nonetheless stays an phantasm, it famous.
Karnataka had seen a drastic minimize even within the Centrally sponsored tasks, it alleged whereas declaring that as in opposition to the anticipated stage of ₹1 lakh crore, the State’s precise allocation from the Centre for the Centrally sponsored tasks was beneath ₹50,000 crore, it stated.
It accused the Centre of making an attempt to extend its assets via cess and surcharges as they weren’t being allotted to States by the Finance Commissions. This was evident with the annual cess and surcharge collections growing from ₹1.41 lakh crore in the course of the UPA regime to ₹5.53 lakh crore now, the decision stated.
Source: www.thehindu.com
