1. Fiscal Reality Check
Tamil Nadu’s debt burden and slipping tax-to-GSDP ratio highlight structural stress.
2. Committee for Revenue Redesign
Mandate of Montek Singh Ahluwalia’s six-member panel to rethink revenue architecture.
3. Beyond New Taxes
Why incremental cesses and borrowings are insufficient for fiscal resilience.
4. Underutilised Assets, Underpriced Services
The core problem: weak monetisation, leakages, and poor pricing of public assets.
5. Reforming Alcohol Policy
Economic potential of liberalised licensing, premium retail, and transparent auctions.
6. Monetising Public Assets
Land, roads, bus stations, advertising rights, and expired leases as revenue sources.
7. Modernising Property & Local Finance
GIS mapping, rationalised guideline values, service pricing, and stronger compliance.
8. Tourism as an Industry
Leveraging heritage, coastline, adventure, convention, and religious tourism.
9. Compliance Before Tax Hikes
Digitised enforcement, rationalised exemptions, and tighter permit systems.
10. Liberalising Key Markets
Transport, power, tourism infrastructure, and breaking monopolies.
11. Creating New Revenue Industries
Online gaming, convention hubs, creative economy, fintech, and sports infrastructure.
12. Improving Government Productivity
Education reforms, PSU disinvestment, MSME credit guarantees, and ADR mechanisms.
13. From Tax Collector to Asset Manager
The philosophical shift: smarter taxation, honest pricing, and strategic monetisation.
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