New Delhi, Aug. 5 -- It is widely expected that the 16th Finance Commission (FC) will look into the growing complaints of states against the Centre dipping into the tax cess and surcharge pools, which are not shared with them, while decreasing the Centre's contribution to centrally sponsored schemes.

But there are other crucial areas too that the FC can nudge the Centre and states to look at beyond the traditional tax devolution criteria followed by most FCs (like state population, area, forest cover and tax efforts).

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