Uncooperative federalism: Compensation debacle shows how GST council offers little space to states

When the new Goods and Services tax was introduced, its  backers  called it a new model of “cooperative federalism”. Much praise was lavished along the same lines on the GST Council, a body of finance ministers of the states and Union government that would now decide indirect taxes for Indians, instead of their elected lawmakers doing so. From “India’s first truly  federal instituti…