Indirect and Direct tax collection jumps 30% and 24% respectively in April-July

10 Aug 2016 Evaluate

Government’s revenue collection showed an impressive growth in April-July period of this fiscal, with total mop-up rising to Rs 4.3 lakh crore. Indirect tax collection rose by 29.90% during April-July period to Rs 271,719 crore, as compared to Rs 209,217 crore for the corresponding period last year, mainly due to impressive growth in central excise duty mop-up, while Direct tax collection registered a growth of 24.01% to Rs 1.59 lakh crore during the April-July period of the current financial year.

The indirect and direct tax collections till July account for 34.90% and 18.82% of the annual budget target respectively. In direct tax, personal income tax collection grew by 31.4%, while corporate taxes registered an increase of 11.65%. Refunds issued by the IT department during April-July was Rs 64,181 crore with an increase of 10.43% over the corresponding period last year. After accounting for refunds, the net growth in personal income tax is 46.55% and for corporate tax it is 2.84%.

Indirect tax revenue that includes collections from excise, customs and service tax, witnessed surge of 50.8% in the collection of Central excise revenue to Rs 123,273 crore during the for the period as against Rs 81,748 crore collected in the same period last fiscal. Customs revenue collection in the period stood at Rs 71,767 crore as against Rs 66,495 crore collected last year, showing a growth of 7.9% and service tax revenue grew 25.8% to Rs 76,679 crore as against Rs 60,974 crore collected last year. Total indirect tax collection in July stood at Rs 68,341 crore against Rs 55,388 crore earlier. Of total, Central excise collection were Rs 31,782 crore, Customs duty collection stood at Rs 16,959 crore and service tax recorded to Rs 19,600 crore.  The government has pegged indirect tax mop-up target at Rs 7.78 lakh crore in 2016-17, up 9.7% from Rs 7.09 lakh crore collected in the previous fiscal.

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