The widening gap between Centre’s collections from cesses and their utilisation points to gross inefficiency in taxation. Cesses can only be used for earmarked purposes, and so remain locked until utilised. Unutilised collections also strengthen the states’ arguments that the Centre should rely less on these non-shareable sources of revenue.
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