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The 14th Finance Commission was constituted in January 2014. Commissions chairman was former RBI governor Y V Reddy. In December 2014, Commission had submitted its report to the President Pranab Mukherjee. Government has accepted FC’s recommendation to increase the devolution of tax receipts from the Centre to the states to 42 percent. Previously, 13th FC had pegged the states’ share at 32 per cent. The accepted recommendations are for the five-year period 2015-16 to 2019-20.
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