Dismissing worries over fiscal deficit target, Finance Secretary Ashok Lavasa has said that India’s fiscal deficit is on the path of recovery, with showing an ease of about 90% of the budget estimate for the full year at the end of September from the level of 96.1% at the end of August.
Highlighting the difference in revenue and expenditure trends, Lavasa also said that there is no shortfall in revenue when it’s compared to last year. He added that the flow of revenue stream has a steady course and revenue earning departments cannot change it easily. On the expenditure front, he pointed that the acceleration in pace of expenditure is due to an early approval of the budget. He said the revenue stream will start catching up when the country will move towards achieving the balance.
Finance Secretary also expressed worries over the direct taxes and indirect taxes performance as he feels that they need to perform and added that that so far things are on course except for a little uncertainty on the goods and services tax. On expectations that revenue from spectrum auctions is likely to fall short of target, he said every year there are some anticipated income schemes that don’t materialise and something else will probably make up for that.
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