Understanding the State’s Power to Tax Mining Activities | UPSC
Introduction In a recent landmark judgment, a nine-judge bench of the Supreme Court has ruled that Indian states possess the authority to tax mining activities and that the collection of ‘royalties’ from mining leaseholders does not constitute a tax. This decision overturns the Supreme Court’s earlier stance from the 1989 case of India Cements Ltd. […]
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