Tax Burden on Farm and Non-Farm Sectors in India - An Inter-Sectoral and Inter-Class Analysis

This book provides a detailed, comparative analysis of the relative tax burdens on the farm and non-farm sectors in India in the 1960s. It addresses the key question of mobilising the resources for transforming agriculture-dependent, backward economies into industrial economies.

List of contents

Introduction. 1. Taxable Capacity and Its Measurement. 2. Estimates of Relative Tax Burdens. 3. The Incidence of Public Expenditure. 4. Inter-Class Incidence of Taxation. 5. Estimates of Potential Tax Revenue from Farm Sector Based on Inter-Sectoral Equity in Tax Burden. 6. A Policy Framework for Reforms in Agricultural Taxation.

About the author

S.L. Shetty is author of Structural Regression in the Indian Economy Since the Mid-Sixties and Microfinance in India (2012). He was former Founding Director of the EPW Research Foundation, India and has also served as head of the Research Department at The Reserve Bank of India.

Product details

• Authors: S. L. Shetty
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 06.06.2025
• EAN: 9781041015987
• ISBN: 978-1-0-4101598-7
• No. of pages: 344
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Sociology, Asia, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Taxation / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Economic Policy, Regional Studies, Regional / International studies, Development economics & emerging economies, Development economics and emerging economies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / Asian Studies