The textbook of Public Finance: Principles and Practices, basically intended for students of MA and research scholars, specializing in public finance, aims to make the students understand the institutional and practical aspects of the subject. It is designed to provide the necessary tools and conceptual framework to understand the fiscal situations around the world.
With its lucid language, interspersed with several real-life examples and figures, the book will be equally useful for students and policy makers and those conducting policy training programmes.

Key Features
• Provides basic understanding of the conceptual and theoretical issues in public finance/public economics
• Helps students in the use of analytical methods used in public economics, and the role of the state in principle and practice around the world
• Provides a comprehensive foundation to the principles underlying tax and non-tax design, the provision of goods in the public sector, and tax enforcement
• Enables students to understand the practical problems involved in implementing these principles
• Includes an entire chapter on GST under indirect taxation.