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Consider the following statements regarding the Fifteenth Finance Commission (FFC) recommendations:
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- It has recommended 41% devolution from Central taxes to States in 2020-21
- It has recommended 1% devolution from Central taxes to the Union Territories of J&K and Ladakh 2020-21
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Answer: Option C
Answer: (c)
The Finance Commission recommends for devolution of taxes (from the divisible pool) from Centre to States only (called Vertical devolution) and is not meant for UTs, whether they have their own assembly/legislature or not.
The Fifteenth Finance Commission (FFC) recommendations will be applicable for six years period from 2020-21 to 2025-26. For the year 2020-21, the recommendations have been submitted and the final recommendations for the five-year period 2021-22 to 2025- 26 will be submitted by October 2020.
FFC quoted:
“The State of Jammu & Kashmir was reorganised into the Union Territories (UT) of Ladakh and Jammu & Kashmir through the Jammu & Kashmir Reorganisation Act, 2019. Article 280 of the Constitution, along with the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act puts the newly-created UTs of Ladakh and Jammu and Kashmir outside the purview of the Finance Commission's award.
Since UTs are the responsibilities of the Union, they are within the purview of the Union budget. We have notionally estimated that the share of the erstwhile State of Jammu & Kashmir would have come to around 0.85 per cent of the divisible pool. We believe that there is a strong case for enhancing this to 1 per cent of the divisible pool in order to meet the security and other special needs of the Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh.
Since this enhancement has to be met from the Union' Government's resources (through Ministry of Home Affairs), we recommend that aggregate share of States may be reduced by 1 percentage point to 41 per cent of the divisible pool.”
So basically, FFC has not recommended the transfer of taxes to Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh Union Territories for the period 2020-21.
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Answer: (c)
The Finance Commission recommends for devolution of taxes (from the divisible pool) from Centre to States only (called Vertical devolution) and is not meant for UTs, whether they have their own assembly/legislature or not.
The Fifteenth Finance Commission (FFC) recommendations will be applicable for six years period from 2020-21 to 2025-26. For the year 2020-21, the recommendations have been submitted and the final recommendations for the five-year period 2021-22 to 2025- 26 will be submitted by October 2020.
FFC quoted:
“The State of Jammu & Kashmir was reorganised into the Union Territories (UT) of Ladakh and Jammu & Kashmir through the Jammu & Kashmir Reorganisation Act, 2019. Article 280 of the Constitution, along with the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act puts the newly-created UTs of Ladakh and Jammu and Kashmir outside the purview of the Finance Commission's award.
Since UTs are the responsibilities of the Union, they are within the purview of the Union budget. We have notionally estimated that the share of the erstwhile State of Jammu & Kashmir would have come to around 0.85 per cent of the divisible pool. We believe that there is a strong case for enhancing this to 1 per cent of the divisible pool in order to meet the security and other special needs of the Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh.
Since this enhancement has to be met from the Union' Government's resources (through Ministry of Home Affairs), we recommend that aggregate share of States may be reduced by 1 percentage point to 41 per cent of the divisible pool.”
So basically, FFC has not recommended the transfer of taxes to Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh Union Territories for the period 2020-21.
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