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Govt's fiscal deficit at end of May stands at 12.3% of annual budget target for 2022-23

01 Jul 2022 Evaluate

With higher expenditure, the Controller General of Accounts (CGA) in its latest data has showed that the central government's fiscal deficit at the end of May stood at 12.3 per cent of the annual budget target for 2022-23. Fiscal deficit is the difference between total expenditure and revenue of the government. It is an indication of the total borrowings that are needed by the government. The fiscal deficit was at 8.2 per cent of the Budget Estimate (RE) of 2021-22 during the corresponding period.

As per the data, in actual terms, the deficit was at Rs 2,03,921 crore at the end of May. The country's fiscal deficit is projected at 6.4 per cent of the GDP for this fiscal ending March 2023 as against 6.71 per cent for the previous year. The data showed that the total receipts of the government at the end of May was at Rs 3.81 lakh crore or 16.7 per cent of the BE for 2022-23. The collection was about 18 per cent of the BE of 2021-22 in the corresponding period last fiscal.

In May, the tax (net) revenue was at 15.9 per cent of the BE of 2022-23. It was 15.1 per cent of the BE 2021-22 in the year-ago period. In actual terms, the net tax revenue stood at Rs 3,07,589 crore during April-May 2022-23. As per the data, the central government's total expenditure at the end of May stood at Rs 5.85 lakh crore or 14.8 per cent of this year's BE. It was 13.7 per cent of the BE in the corresponding period. For 2022-23, the fiscal deficit of the government is estimated to be Rs 16,61,196 crore.

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