Do you know the following terms?

  • Finance Commission
    • Devolution of taxes between centre and state
  • Neeti Aayog
    • How many verticals
  • FRMB Act
  • GST, IGST, CGST
    • Tax incidence, impact , shifting
  • Why did we shift from VAC?
  • Different taxes that were subsumed in GST
  • Marginal Tax Rate (very important for income tax calculation)
  • Income tax calculation
  • Rates and Slabs in Income Tax
  • Database used for Public Finance
    • RBI DBIE
    • IPFS
    • Economic Survey
    • World Bank Database
    • IMF Database
    • gapminder (development economics)
  • Economic Survey Vs Budget
    • 3 estimates: budget, device, actual
  • sections of income tax (important to file income tax)

Expenditure

  1. GST, GSTn
  2. Federal Finance
  3. Input Tax credit
  4. Laffer Curve (Tax Revenue vs tax rate)
  • Surcharge, sess

  • Progressive, proportionate, regressive, degressive

  • EPF vs PPF

  • Transmission mechanism (flow chart)

  • negative interest rate

  • MPC

  • WPI

  • CPI

  • PPI

  • DBT

  • depreciation of currency

  • devaluation of currency

  • fixed, lexical exchange rate

  • forex reserves

Why did we shift from 5 year plan to Neeti Aayog.

Books

  • Jonathan Gruber (Public Finance and Public Policy) Chapter 1,2
  • naked economics Chapter 3,4
  • Last Mile problem - Dilip …
  • In the service of the republic.