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Tamil Nadu White Paper Flags 5-Year Tax Effort Decline From 5.93% to 5.45% of GSDP, Prompting Peer-State Revenue Benchmarking Reform
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Tamil Nadu’s own-tax effort has ‘collapsed’, says White Paper
“Word choice ('collapsed') and superlatives ('lowest in history', 'steepest decline') use catastrophizing framing to emphasize fiscal crisis severity.”