The study, authored by Sacchidananda Mukherjee of National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP), used data from the Household Consumption Expenditure Survey (HCES) for 2022-23 to analyse the impact of the indirect tax regime on consumption. 

New Study Shows Bottom 50% Bear Undue GST Burden; Govt Forgoes Rs 99,000 Crore in Corporate Tax - The Wire 

It found that both the bottom 50% and the middle 30% of Indian consumers living in rural areas shared 31% of the GST burden. Similarly, in urban areas, the bottom half and the middle 30% groups faced 29% and 30% of the GST burden respectively.

According to the Indian Express, the findings of this study contradict a 2023 Oxfam report that said the poorest 50% of Indians were paying two-thirds of the total GST collection while the richest 10% accounted for a mere 3-4%.

The Union government told the parliament on Tuesday that nearly Rs 99,000 crore were foregone in corporate tax revenue in 2023-24 on account of tax incentives extended to corporates.

24/07/2025

झूठे गवाह, फ़र्ज़ी सबूत, टॉर्चर, मुंबई बम धमाके की जाँच का आया सच  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LAFMpZQFMY The game of arresting 12 innocent people in the July 2006 Mumbai bomb blast case has been exposed. To make them accused, the accused in other cases and the Panchnama witnesses were presented as witnesses in the Mumbai bomb blast case. The Bombay High Court's decision records every detail of how the story was fabricated. The police did not even care that if 189 people were killed in the terrorist attack, the real accused should be caught. To implicate the innocent, the Mumbai police put all its efforts in preparing a 44,500-page charge sheet. Shouldn't the investigation process and system in terrorist cases be improved? Shouldn't such officers be held accountable? What was ATS doing for 18 years? Why couldn't it catch the real accused? Is India fighting terrorism on the strength of the officers who fabricate stories?

ICJ delivers an unambiguous order on states’ responsibilities to halt climate change https://scroll.in/article/1084853/icj-delivers-an-unambiguous-order-on-states-responsibilities-to-halt-climate-change  Meena Menon  The United Nations’ judicial organ paved the way for states to be held accountable for fossil fuel emissions and the resultant climate harm. failure of states to take measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by continuing fossil fuel production, granting exploration licences or fossil fuel subsidies constituted an internationally wrongful act. States also have an obligation to regulate private actors as a matter of due diligence. in the event that restitution should prove to be materially impossible, responsible states have an obligation to compensate.  

the court held that it was scientifically possible to determine the emissions contribution of each state in both current and historical terms.... states were obliged to adhere to both customary and international laws as well the climate treaties: the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Agreement and other United Nations conventions on biodiversity, desertification as well as human rights and the Law of the Sea.