Income Tax department adds 1.07 crore new taxpayers in FY18

05 Apr 2019 Evaluate

The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has said that it added 1.07 crore new taxpayers in financial year 2018 (FY18) as compared to 86.16 lakh new ITR filers added during financial year 2017 (FY17), showing the positive impact of demonetization. CBDT stated that demonetization had a phenomenal positive impact on the widening of tax base and direct tax collections.

It further stated that dropped filers, which is defined as a person who was earlier in the filer base but has not filed return in any of the last three financial years, declined in FY18 to 25.22 lakh from 28.34 lakh in FY17. Moreover, CBDT mentioned that 6.87 crore Income Tax Returns (ITRs) were filed during FY18 as compared to 5.48 crore ITRs filed during FY17, translating into a growth of 25%.

Besides, CBDT stated that the net direct tax collections for FY18 amounted to Rs 10.03 lakh crore, which is 18% higher than the collections for FY17. The growth rate of 18% for FY18 is the highest in the last seven financial years. A substantial part of this growth is attributed to the impact of demonetization. The government had in November 2016 demonetised high value currency notes of 500 and 1000 denominations to crack down on black money.

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