Best of BS Opinion: Reforming fuel taxes, post-pandemic future, and more

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s exhortation to non-BJP-ruled states to reduce VAT on fuel has not gone down well with these states. Yet the problem of Centre-state tensions on this account is unlikely to abate unless structural problems with the tax system are resolved. The top edit suggests bringing fuel under GST and levying a carbon tax to offset the issue of revenue neutrality that may arise. Read it here

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The second edit points out that poor governance standards in the executive, legislature and bureaucracy is adding to the backlog in the judicial system.