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Govt’s fiscal deficit touches 82.8% of full-year target at end of February: CGA

03 Apr 2023 Evaluate

The Controller General of Accounts (CGA) in its latest data has showed that the central government’s fiscal deficit touched 82.8 per cent of the full-year (FY23) target at the end of February. In actual terms, the fiscal deficit or gap between the expenditure and revenue collection during April-February period stood at Rs 14.53 lakh crore. The fiscal deficit in the comparable period of 2021-22 was 82.7 per cent of that year’s Revised Estimate (RE) in the Budget.

For the full year 2022-23, the government expects the deficit at Rs 17.55 lakh crore or 6.4 per cent of the GDP. CGA data showed that the net tax collection in the first 11 months of this fiscal was at Rs 17,32,193 crore or 83 per cent of the RE for 2022-23. In the comparable period last fiscal, the collection stood at 83.9 per cent of the RE for 2021-22.

Total expenditure incurred by the government was Rs 34.93 lakh crore (83.4 per cent of RE 2022-23), out of which Rs 29,03,363 crore was on Revenue Account and Rs 5,90,227 crore was on Capital Account. Out of the total revenue expenditure, Rs 7,98,957 crore was for interest payments and Rs 4,59,547 crore was on account of major subsidies. The government intends to bring the fiscal deficit below 4.5 per cent of the GDP by 2025-26.

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