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IMF terms India’s budget 2018-19 tax collection assumptions as ambitious

16 Feb 2018 Evaluate

Terming tax collection assumptions in India’s budget as ambitious, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) director of Communications Department Gerry Rice has said that the budget for 2018-19 assumes the tax revenue to increase faster than the value of transactions in the economy. He added that the budget aims for a deficit that is smaller than the deficit that was expected in 2017-18.

IMF director of Communications Department has pointed out that the budget also assumes the government will be able to collect higher tax revenue from the same amount of consumption and income. But, he said there is a need to look into the fiscal implications of some of the initiatives that are presently unfunded.

Citing some of the implementations relating to the goods and services tax (GST) in 2017, Rice said if these issues persist, tax revenue collection could fall short on the budget. Referring to some of the social welfare programmes announced by finance minister Arun Jaitley, he said that in the budget, there are also some initiatives that are presently unfunded and fiscal implications of these need to look at a little bit more closely as more details become available.

Gerry Rice further said that the IMF is also looking at some of the potential slippages on the revenue side or higher outlays on new policy initiatives because they could result in cost to capital expenditures, which the world body feels is important to support a medium-term growth.



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