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Govt likely to seek special dividend from top PSUs to meet tax deficit

08 Oct 2015 Evaluate

With an aim to meet the revenue shortfall arising due to deficit in tax collection during the current fiscal year, the government is likely to seek special dividend from the top central public sector enterprises (CPSEs). The government may look into this after the release of second quarter numbers. Companies like Coal India, NTPC, ONGC, GAIL, IOC etc may be asked to pay special dividend if government decides so.

According to the current norms, profit-making CPSEs are required to declare a minimum dividend of 20 per cent or a minimum pay-out of 20 per cent whichever is higher. In case of PSUs operating in oil, petroleum, chemical and infrastructure sectors, the minimum divided pay-out should be 30 per cent of the post tax profits.

The government has said that the total revenue collection will fall short by Rs 50,000 crore (5-7 per cent) in the current financial year mainly because of subdued growth in direct taxes. Though it has reiterated that despite shortfall in direct tax collection the fiscal deficit will still remain within the budgeted target. In the current financial year, the total tax revenues are likely to be around Rs 14 lakh crore against the budget estimate of Rs 14.5 lakh crore. Besides, it had budgeted to raise Rs 69,500 crore through disinvestment in current fiscal, of which Rs 28,500 crore is to come from strategic stake sales. There are fears that government may not meet its disinvestment target.

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