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Mobilisation of Resources: Types, Needs & Sources
Mobilisation of Resources: Types, Needs & Sources
Mobilisation of Resources: Types, Needs & Sources
NON RENEWABLE
ARTIFICIAL RESOURCE
RESOURCES — MEANING AND TYPES Human Resources is also the department that deals
with the issues related to people such as
compensation and benefits, recruiting and hiring
A. HUMAN RESOURCE employees, performance management, training etc.
➤ Human resources are the people who make up the workforce of an organisation,
business sector, or a whole economy.
➤ The resource that resides in the knowledge, skills, and motivation of people is the
human resource. It improves with age and experience, which no other resource can
do. It is therefore regarded as the scarcest and most crucial productive resource that
creates the largest and longest lasting advantage for an economy.
➤ It is due to this factor that an age structure tilted towards the working age is
considered to be a “demographic dividend”.
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RESOURCES — MEANING AND TYPES
B. PHYSICAL RESOURCES — NATURAL RESOURCE
➤ Natural resources are useful raw materials that we get from the Earth. They occur
naturally, which means that we cannot produce natural resources. Instead, we use
and modify natural resources in ways that are beneficial to us. The raw materials
used in artificially made objects are natural resources.
➤ For example, we modify a natural resource called iron ore and other material into a
human-made object called steel.
➤ Two types:
- Renewable Sources: can be replenished naturally. Eg. sunlight, air, wind, water, etc.
- Non Renewable Sources: either form slowly or do not naturally form in the
environment. Eg. Oil, coal, natural gas etc.
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RESOURCES — MEANING AND TYPES
B. PHYSICAL RESOURCES — ARTIFICIAL RESOURCE
➤ When humans use natural resources to make other resources which are useful,
those resources are known as artificial or human-made resources.
➤ For instance, when we use metals, wood, concrete, sand and solar energy to make
buildings, machinery, vehicles, bridges, roads etc. they become artificial resources.
Similarly, technology is also an artificial resource.
➤ Artificial resources are mostly renewable. One can re-build a building or fix a broken
machine.
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RESOURCES — MEANING AND TYPES
C. ECONOMIC RESOURCES
➤ Economic Resources generally include the most important economic resource —
money.
➤ However, because we will be talking from a governmental perspective, we are going
to focus on the sources of revenue of a state i.e. the sources from where the
government mobilises economic resources.
➤ Given that we are studying economics, of all the three types of resources we have studied, we will
focus primarily on the ‘Economic Resources’. We will study them in more detail in the next
section.
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SOURCES OF GOVERNMENT REVENUE
SOURCES OF GOVERNMENT REVENUE
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GLOSSARY
★ Fiscal Deficit = The difference between total revenue and total expenditure of
the government excluding the borrowings is termed as fiscal deficit. It is an
indication of the total borrowings needed by the government. While calculating
the total revenue, borrowings are not included. It occurs when a government's total
expenditures exceed the revenue that it generates, excluding money from
borrowings.
★ Revenue Deficit = A mismatch in the expected revenue and expenditure can
result in revenue deficit. Revenue deficit arises when the government’s actual
net receipts is lower than the projected receipts. On the contrary, if the actual
receipts are higher than expected one, it is termed as revenue surplus. A revenue
deficit does not mean actual loss of revenue.
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ISSUES ARISING IN MOBILISATION
C. TAX MALADMINISTRATION
➤ Inefficient tax administrative system has led to problems such as tax evasion and tax
avoidance ultimately resulting in lower and lower revenues for both the central and
state governments.
➤ Taxation reforms are therefore necessary.
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GLOSSARY
★ Tax Avoidance = The use of legitimate and legal ways for reducing tax liability by
taking advantage of the shortcomings in the legislature.
★ Tax Evasion = The use of illegal means to avoid paying your taxes. Tax evasion
occurs when the taxpayer either evades assessment or evades payment.
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STRENGTHENING RESOURCE MOBILISATION
B. TAX REFORMS
➤ We already learned that an inefficient tax administrative system ultimately leads to
tax evasion and tax avoidance thereby reducing revenue sources for the government.
➤ Therefore, tax reforms are a necessary ingredient to ensure good revenue.
➤ Various reforms have already been made, and some reforms are in the offing. We will discuss some
of the major reforms here.
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STRENGTHENING RESOURCE MOBILISATION
B. TAX REFORMS — GOODS AND SERVICES TAX
➤ GST is an Indirect Tax which has replaced many Indirect Taxes in India.
➤ The GST Act was passed in the Parliament on March 2017 and came into effect on
1st July 2017; Goods & Services Tax Law in India is a comprehensive, multi-stage,
destination-based tax that is levied on every value addition.
➤ In simple words, GST is an indirect tax levied on the supply of goods and
services. This law has replaced many indirect tax laws that previously existed in
India.
➤ Under the GST regime, the tax will be levied at every point of sale. In case of intra-
state sales, Central GST and State GST will be charged. Inter-state sales will be
chargeable to Integrated GST.
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STRENGTHENING RESOURCE MOBILISATION
B. TAX REFORMS — DIRECT TAX CODE (DTC)
➤ DTC is an attempt by the GoI to simplify the direct tax laws. It will consolidate and
simplify the structure of direct tax laws in India into a single legislation.
➤ The DTC, when implemented will replace the Income Tax Act, 1961 (ITA) and other
direct tax legislations like the Wealth Tax Act, 1957.
➤ The first draft bill of DTC was released by GOI for public comments along with a
discussion paper on August 2009 (DTC 2009) and based on the feedback from
various stakeholders, a Revised Discussion Paper (RDP) was released in 2010.
➤ As a follow-up on this initiative and as stated by the Finance Minister (FM) in his
Interim Budget Speech in February 2014, a “revised” version of DTC (DTC 2013)
was released on March 2014.
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STRENGTHENING RESOURCE MOBILISATION
B. TAX REFORMS — DIRECT TAX CODE (DTC)
➤ The DTC 2013 proposes to introduce:
- General Anti Avoidance Rules (GAAR),
- Taxation of Controlled Foreign Companies (CFC),
- Place of Effective Management (POEM) rule as a test to determine residency and tax indirect
transfer of Indian assets.
- Also contains expanded source rules for taxation of royalty, fees for technical services (FTS)
and interest.
➤ Further certain novel provisions are also included such as additional tax levy on
certain persons having high net worth such as dividend tax levy on dividend income
earned by resident shareholders in excess of INR 10 million.
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GLOSSARY
★ General Anti Avoidance Rules (GAAR) = These rules are formed to target any
transaction or business arrangement that is entered into with the aim of avoiding
tax. The objective is to check aggressive tax planning.
★ Controlled Foreign Companies = a corporate entity that is registered and
conducts business in a different jurisdiction or country than the residency of the
controlling owners.
★ Place of Effective Management (POEM) = defined to mean a place where key
management and commercial decisions that are necessary for the conduct of the
business of an entity as a whole are, in substance made.
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GLOSSARY
★ Long-Term Capital Gains (LTCG) tax = It is the tax paid on profit generated by an
asset such as real estate, shares or share-oriented products held for a particular
time-frame. The definition of Long-term Capital Gains, or LTCG, is different for
various products.
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GLOSSARY
★ Wilful Defaulter =
A ‘wilful default’ would be deemed to have occurred if any of the following events is noted:
A. The unit has defaulted in meeting its payment obligations to the lender even when it has
the capacity to honour the said obligations.
B. The unit has defaulted in meeting its payment obligations to the lender and has not
utilised the finance from the lender for the specific purposes for which finance was availed
of but has diverted the funds for other purposes.
C. The unit has defaulted in meeting its payment obligations to the lender and has siphoned
off the funds so that the funds have not been utilised for the specific purpose for which
finance was availed of, nor are the funds available with the unit in the form of other assets.
D. The unit has defaulted in meeting its payment obligations to the lender and has also
disposed off or removed the movable fixed assets or immovable property given for the
purpose of securing a term loan without the knowledge of the bank / lender
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ARTIFICIAL RESOURCE
Q2. DESCRIBE THE TWO TYPES OF GOVERNMENTAL REVENUE AND RATE THEIR
RELATIVE SIGNIFICANCE IN TERMS OF QUANTITY.