The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has said that it was not only confident that the Income Tax (IT) department would achieve Rs 9.80 lakh crore target of direct tax revenue collections for the financial year 2017-18, but that it would surpass it. CBDT Chairman Sushil Chandra has said that the net direct tax collections, which are made up of personal and corporate taxes, have been buoyant and very good.
Chandra said ‘I am very happy to say that the net growth of collections is about 15.2 percent at the moment and I would say that the individual assessees under the advance tax category have responded very well’. He further stated that there was a 30 percent increase in the advance tax of the individual assesses, which is quite optimistic for the department. He also noted that the department had seen an overall rise of 20 percent in returns filed post demonetisation and hence, the tax will be much more.
The policy-making body of the I-T department, CBDT had showed that net direct tax collections have reached 44.8% of the total budget estimates for the current fiscal year 2017-18 (FY18) - which is set at Rs 9.8 lakh crore.
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