With the help of economic growth and exchange of data amongst various agencies and wings of the government, Revenue Secretary Ajay Bhushan Pandey has said that the revised direct tax target of Rs 13.35 lakh crore is realistic and achievable. He said “In the interim Budget direct tax target was Rs 13.80 lakh crore. Now we are saying Rs 13.35 lakh crore. It is a realistic statement. We are collecting data from various places, we feel that there will be an efficiency gain as tax collection depends on two things -- growth and efficency.”
Pandey also said “We have grown at 14% last year. This year we are having the data exchange GST, customs and various other authorities, info from banks, filing of returns, all these will give us efficiency gains including data in capital market, GST, banks, customs , e-filing of returns, export and import”. He further said there is a scope for bringing more people into the tax net. The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) will embark on faceless assessment for tax payers and required procedures are being put into place for this.
The government has re-calibrated and fixed the direct taxes collection target for this financial year at Rs 13.35 lakh crore. In the last revised estimates, the target for 2019-20 financial year was fixed as Rs 13.78 lakh crore which appeared to be unrealistic because it was showing an increase of almost 24% year-on-year. The CBDT made this submission while budget deliberations were going on. Consequently, the collection target for direct taxes has now been fixed at Rs 13.35 lakh crore and this translates to about 17.5% increase year-on-year.
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