Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said the Union Budget sought to undermine the economy of individual States instead of bolstering their COVID-19 ravaged financial systems.
Mr. Vijayan said the States had joined the Centre's GST regime in 2015-16 to rationalise many regional taxes and evolve a coherent value-added surcharge system for a range of goods and services. The tax homogenisation had cost States their revenue autonomy.