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Opportunity Squandered: How the States have wasted their reform bonus
IPA BACKGROUNDER
Since 2000, GST revenue distributed to the states has increased at an average annual rate of more than 9 per cent-a huge and unexpected gain. As a result, the states are awash with money at levels unanticipated by the architects of the new tax system.
But instead of continuing and initiating reform, state governments have systematically grown the number and entitlements of bureaucrats with no discernable improvement in services.