The highest tax buoyancy rate for the Union government during the last 28 years after economic reforms was achieved in 2002-03. Tax buoyancy that year had risen to 2, which meant that the Centre’s gross tax revenues had grown at double the rate at which the Indian economy had grown in nominal terms. The finance minister under whose watch such a high level of tax buoyancy was recorded was Yashwant Sinha.
Tax buoyancy is one of the key indicators to assess the efficiency of a government’s tax system. It measures the responsiveness of tax mobilisation to economic growth. Tax buoyancy
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