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Indirect tax collections up 6.49% to Rs 3.77 lakh crore during April-December FY15

14 Jan 2015 Evaluate

Indirect tax collections grew by 6.49% to Rs 3.77 lakh crore during April-December period of current fiscal as compared to Rs 3.54 lakh crore during the same period of previous financial year. Indirect taxes include customs duty, central excise duty and service tax. Indirect tax amount during the April to December period accounts for around 60.6% of the target fixed for 2014-15 Budget Estimate.  

Customs duty collections grew 9.5% to Rs1.38 lakh crore as against Rs1.26 lakh crore and excise collections for April-December FY15 grew 1.69% to Rs1.20 lakh crore  as against Rs 1.18 lakh crore. For customs, the government has so far achieved 68.6% of the Budget estimate while in the case of excise duty it has achieved 58.3% of the Budget estimate.

Indirect tax collection during December was recorded Rs 49,651 crore, up 5.1% from Rs 47,235 crore collected in similar month of the last fiscal. Excise duty collection grew by 17.2% y-o-y to Rs 17,450 crore and customs duty amount increased by 5.4% to Rs 15,222 crore during December. On the other hand, the service tax collections shrunk by 5.2% y-o-y to Rs 16,979 crore in December.

Tax collection is the major source of revenue for the government. The Budget aimed to mobilise Rs 6.23 lakh crore in 2014-15, which requires a growth of 20% in indirect tax collections over 2013-14.  However, the total indirect tax collections amount for April-December was 60% of the full year budgeted estimate, indicating that  40% of the Budget estimates will have to be collected in the next three months. The government has estimated to garner Rs 13.64 lakh crore from both direct and indirect tax collections during the current fiscal.

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