Direct tax collection rises by 6% in Apr-Sept against annual target of 15%

11 Oct 2012 Evaluate

In line with poor financial performance, the first half of the current fiscal has recorded gross direct tax collection growth rate at 5.9%, as against an annual target of 15%. The gross direct tax collection during the first six months of 2012-13 is about Rs 2.7 lakh crore, while previous year same period it was Rs 2.6 lakh crore.

Though the net direct tax collections rose by 16.32% to Rs 2, 26,603 crore during the April-September of the current financial year, compared with Rs 1, 94,812 crore during the same period in 2011-12, while the corporate tax collection during the period has grown to 1.6% at Rs 1.8 lakh crore, from previous year’s Rs 1.6 lakh crore for the same period.

The personal income tax collection increased by 14.9% at Rs 93,451 crore in the first half of the fiscal, same period last year it was Rs 81,353 crore. And wealth tax collection also peaked by 53.9% at Rs 474 crore, against Rs 308 crore in same period last year.

However, Securities Transaction Tax (STT) collection fell by 17.03% to Rs 2, 076 crore from Rs 2, 502 crore. The centre has expressed hopes that the economic activity will gear up in the next half of 2012-13.

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