Who was the chairman of the Tax Reforms Committee 1991?
Raja J. Chelliah
The Tax Reforms Committee was constituted by the Government of India in 1991, at the start of the economic liberalisation programme, to recommend a comprehensive redesign of the country's tax system.
It was chaired by the eminent public finance economist Raja J. Chelliah, who submitted interim and final reports in the early 1990s.
The committee argued for lower and fewer tax rates, a broadening of the tax base, simpler procedures and reduced reliance on distortionary import duties.
Many of its ideas, such as moderate income-tax slabs and rationalised customs and excise duties, were adopted in the reform-era budgets that followed.
For this contribution Raja Chelliah is widely described as the 'father of tax reforms' in India.
Among the other names, Manmohan Singh was the Finance Minister who set up the panel, while P. Chidambaram (a later Finance Minister) and Shaktikanta Das (a later RBI Governor) held their key roles afterwards, not as chairman of this committee.
Hence the correct answer is Raja J. Chelliah.
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