Match the following(a) Art 268 1. Taxes levied and collected by the union but assigned to the states (b) Art 269 2. Grants-in-aid (c) Art 275 3. Finance commission (d) Art 280 4. Duties levied by the union but collected and appropriated by the states
4 1 2 3
The financial relations between the Union and the States are in Part XII of the Constitution, and each of these Articles covers a distinct channel of resources.
Article 268 covers duties levied by the Union but collected and appropriated by the States, such as stamp duties on certain instruments, so (a) matches 4.
Article 269 covers taxes levied and collected by the Union but assigned to the States, such as taxes on inter-State sale and consignment of goods, so (b) matches 1.
Article 275 provides for statutory grants-in-aid from the Union to States in need of assistance, so (c) matches 2. Article 280 provides for the Finance Commission, so (d) matches 3. The code is 4 1 2 3; the other codes swap Articles 268 and 269 or misplace the grants and the Commission.
4 1 2 3 option is correct.
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- Which of the following pairs of list and contents is/are correctly matched ?
1. State list : Public health and sanitation
2. Union list : Citizenship, naturalisation and aliens
3. Concurrent list : Legal, medical and other professions
Select the correct answer using the code given below : - The Punchhi Commission report was related to:
- Government of which one of the following States has appointed the Rajamannar Committee to study the Centre-State relations ?
- Which one of the following was the mandate of the Dhar Commission (1948)?
- Statutory grants to states by the Union government, under Article 275 of the Constitution, are primarily recommended by which body?
