The Finance Ministry in its latest report has showed that in the first nine months (April-December) of current financial year (FY19), the direct tax collections surged by 14.1% to Rs 8.74 lakh crore. During the same period, the refunds amounting to Rs 1.30 lakh crore have also been issued, an increase of 17% from the year-ago period.
The net (post-refunds) direct tax collection for April-December period FY19 was Rs 7.43 lakh crore, up 13.6% from the year-ago period. The net direct tax collections represent 64.7% of the total budget estimates of the direct taxes of Rs 11.5 lakh crore for FY19. The growth in collection in the first nine months of the year was marginally lower than the rate of 14.4% required to meet the budget estimate in FY19. This was despite a robust 43.5% y-o-y growth in number of income tax e-returns filed for the first nine months of FY19, which stood at 6.25 crore.
So far as the growth rate for Corporate Income Tax (CIT) and Personal Income Tax (PIT) is concerned, the growth rate of gross collections for CIT was 14.8% while that for PIT (including STT) was 17.2%. After adjustment of refunds, the net growth in CIT collections was 16.0% and that in PIT collections was 14.8%. It is pertinent to mention that collections of the corresponding period of FY18 also included extraordinary collections under the Income Declaration Scheme (IDS), 2016 amounting to Rs 10,844 crore (Third and last instalment of IDS), which do not form part of the current year’s collections.
An amount of Rs. 3.64 lakh crore has been collected as Advance Tax, which was 14.5% higher than the Advance Tax collections during the corresponding period of last year. The growth rate of Corporate Advance Tax was 12.5% and that of PIT Advance Tax was 23.8%.
Start Research-backed Investing ...Now. Subscribe to Sapphire
MoneyWorks4Me is a SEBI-registered Investment Adviser (IA) dedicated to helping investors build long-term wealth through transparent, research-driven, conflict-free guidance. Founded in 2008, we started our journey as a Research Analyst (RA), providing deep fundamental analysis, intrinsic value insights, and long-term investing frameworks for Indian equities. In 2017, we transitioned to a full-fledged SEBI-registered Investment Adviser, strengthening our commitment to acting as a fiduciary—always putting the investor’s interest first.
To become India’s most trusted, research-powered fiduciary advisory platform—where every investor, regardless of experience, can make calm, confident, and well-reasoned investment decisions.
MoneyWorks4Me ensures this through: