{"id":73097,"date":"2025-09-05T13:16:02","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T07:46:02","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-09-05T13:16:02","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T07:46:02","slug":"cess-39-slitting-throat-of-federalism-39-derek-o-39-brien","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/?p=73097","title":{"rendered":"Cess &#39;slitting throat of federalism&#39;: Derek O&#39;Brien"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cess &#39;slitting throat of federalism&#39;: Derek O&#39;Brien<BR>GST<BR>Dated:- 5-9-2025<BR>PTI<BR>New Delhi, Sep 5 (PTI) Trinamool Congress Rajya Sabha leader Derek O&#39;Brien on Friday said the cess going to the Centre is &#8220;slitting the throat of federalism&#8221;, and noted that several states have voiced concern over the shrinking divisive pool of tax revenues.<br \/>\n In a blogpost, the TMC Rajya Sabha Leader said, &#8220;In all the hoopla about GST, the four-letter word which is slitting the throat of federalism is CESS&#8221;.<br \/>\n &#8220;Funds collected as cess go 100 percent to the Union government. Not a rupee is shared with the State governments,&#8221; he said.<br \/>\n O&#39;Brien said in 2012, cess formed 7 per cent of the Union government&#39;s total tax revenues, while in 2025, cess is estim<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Plain text (Extract) only<\/strong><BR>For full text:-<a href=\"https:\/\/www.taxtmi.com\/news?id=54721\">Visit the Source <\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n<p>(over Rs 2 lakh crore).<br \/>\n Cess is imposed as an additional tax besides the existing tax and the proceeds may or may not be shared with the states.<br \/>\n A divisible pool is a portion of Gross Tax Revenue distributed between states and Centre. It comprises all taxes except surcharges and cess levied for specific purpose.<br \/>\nO&#39;Brien also quoted former West Bengal Finance Minister Amit Mitra, and said GST rationalisation is a good step, provided the common people get the benefit, also pointing out that an anti-profiteering committee that ensured the lower GST would be passed on to the consumers, has been discontinued.<br \/>\n &#8220;Second, there also remains the question of how states will be compensated. Eleven ministers in the GST Council had asked for compe<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Plain text (Extract) only<\/strong><BR>For full text:-<a href=\"https:\/\/www.taxtmi.com\/news?id=54721\">Visit the Source <\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cess &#8216;slitting throat of federalism&#8217;: Derek O&#8217;BrienGSTDated:- 5-9-2025PTINew Delhi, Sep 5 (PTI) Trinamool Congress Rajya Sabha leader Derek O&#8217;Brien on Friday said the cess going to the Centre is &#8220;slitting the throat of federalism&#8221;, and noted that several <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}