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Corporate tax can be reduced to 25% only after exemptions end: Arun Jaitley

06 Feb 2018 Evaluate

In line with the government’s earlier promises, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has said that the basic rate of corporate tax can be brought down to 25 percent from the current 30 percent only after all the exemptions given to the industry have ended. He also said that it would not be proper to end exemptions midway as some industries may have been set up based on them. Therefore, he noted that the opportunity to reduce the corporate tax rate to 25 percent will arise when all the exemptions end in the due course.

In the Union Budget 2018-19, Jaitley announced that corporate tax would be reduced to 25 percent from the coming fiscal for companies which had a turnover up to Rs 250 crore during 2016-17. He said that for the remaining 7,000-odd companies, the average effective tax rate after considering the exemptions comes to about 22 percent. Talking about fiscal deficit, he said that the target of trimming it down to 3.2 percent of the gross domestic product (GDP) in the fiscal year ending March 2018, was missed mainly due to goods and services tax (GST) revenues accruing only for 11 months as against the expenditure being accounted for 12 months.

The minister further stated that revenues under the GST, which replaced 17 central and state levies including excise duty, service tax and VAT, accrue only after a month in which the sales are made. He also said that in contrast, the revenue from excise used to accrue just as the products left the factory. So, he pointed out that for the current fiscal, the government accounted for revenue for only 11 months, with the accruals of March coming in only in April. He mentioned that next year onwards, the 12 month cycle would be complete, and added that the buoyancy in GST collections as well as indirect taxes gave him confidence that it would be easier to meet the fiscal deficit target of 3.3 percent set for 2018-19.

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