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Indirect tax collections surge by 36.8 per cent in October 2015

10 Nov 2015 Evaluate

Indirect taxes collections during the month of October registered an increase of 36.8% to Rs 58,691 crore compared with collections made in October 2014 of Rs 42,897 crore. This is led by a massive over 66% increase in excise duty collections. Indirect taxes include customs duty, central excise duty and service tax.

These collections reflect in part increase due to additional measures taken by the Government from time to time, including the excise increases on diesel and petrol, the increase in clean energy cess, the withdrawal of exemptions for motor vehicles, capital goods and consumer durables, and from June 2015, the increase in Service Tax rates from 12.36% to 14%. Stripped of all these additional measures, indirect tax collections increased 11.6% during April-October 2015 as compared to April-October 2014.

Indirect tax collections rose by 35.9% to Rs 3.82 lakh crore for the first seven months of the current fiscal as compared to Rs 2.81 lakh crore in the same period last fiscal, on account of robust growth in all the three classes of indirect taxes. Besides, customs collections too remained on a upward trajectory rose by 16.8% to Rs 1.22 lakh crore in April-October 2015 from Rs 1.04 lakh crore same period last financial year. Further, the service tax collection increased 26.1% to Rs 1.12 lakh crore in April-October 2015 from Rs 89,379 crore in April-October 2014. Collections on account of Central Excise increased from Rs.87,588 crore in April-October 2014 to Rs.1, 47,685 crore in April-October 2015 and thereby registering an increase of 68.6%. 

Indirect tax collections so far have reached 59.2% of the Rs 6.4 lakh crore annual target, which is 18.8% higher than what it had collected in 2014-15. These collections continue to suggest a healthy growth in the underlying tax base. The higher growth will help meet likely shortfall in direct tax collection and disinvestment receipts.

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