<b>Neelkanth Mishra:</b> Vexing taxing problems

Centre-state data sharing is currently a distant dream but can be ground-breaking if implemented

Recent developments have reopened some long-running debates about our country, like of “state capacity” (how closely does the execution of a policy mirror the government’s intent?), the depth and breadth of corruption (a surprisingly large number of people appear to have been complicit in the black money making its way into bank deposits in the last two months), and our abysmally low tax to gross domestic product (GDP) ratio. Of these, the last seems to hold the key to the first two, so let's drill down on it.

Some have argued that in global comparisons our low tax to GDP squares