Government has collected Rs 4.27 lakh crore or 68.6%, of Budget target for indirect tax in first ten months of the months, i.e. April-January 2015 as compared to Rs 3.98 lakh crore in corresponding period of previous year, marking a growth of 7.28% on Y-o-Y basis.
Despite this, the government is facing an uphill task of achieving its fiscal deficit target of 4.1% of gross domestic product (GDP) since the central board of excise and customs will have to collect almost Rs 2 lakh crore in indirect taxes in next two months of fiscal in order to meet the budgeted tax target of Rs 6.23 lakh.
Data showed a sharp uptick in indirect tax collection for the month of January, which rose by 14.4% from a year ago period at Rs 50, 599 crore. Service tax, which constitutes the biggest sector of Indian economy and forms major part of indirect tax collections in January, registered a year-on-year (y-o-y) growth of 8.3% at Rs 1.32 lakh crore in April-January of the ongoing fiscal, as compared to Rs 1.22 lakh crore in the corresponding period of the previous fiscal. Service tax collections grew by 6.3 percent to Rs 13,086 crore in January 2015 compared to Rs 12,309 crore in the same month in 2014.
Excise duty collections, another large contributor to indirect tax, showed a y-o-y growth of 5.3% for April-January period of the ongoing fiscal at Rs 1.40 lakh crore from Rs 1.33 lakh crore of the previous fiscal. It rose by 35.4% at Rs 20755 crore for the month of January only.
Notably, the government has met 76.9% of the budget target for customs duty collection, 68.3% for central excise collection target and 61.3% of service tax collection target during April-January period of the ongoing fiscal.
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