Revenue Secretary Tarun Bajaj was quoted as saying that the growth in tax revenues will continue to be higher than the GDP growth, owing to better compliance
Centre has already collected half the targeted revenue in the first six months of the current financial year even as customs and excise duty collection figures are yet to come in
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Gupta added that if the trend continues, direct tax collections for FY23 could exceed the budget target of Rs 14.20 trillion
Advance tax by companies and individuals rises 33%
Direct taxes, which comprise income tax paid by individuals and corporate tax, came in at Rs 14.10 lakh crore -- Rs 3.02 lakh crore higher than the budget estimate
In FY22, direct tax collections broke all records, touching Rs 13,81 trillion. Future Retail and Future Enterprises defaulted on loan repayments worth Rs 8,157.97 crore. More in our top headlines:
Collections already stand at Rs 12K crore, compared to Budget target of Rs 12.5K crore
Trend in contrast to moderation in GST collections last month
The government also issued 41 per cent higher refunds compared to last year.
Direct tax collection target set in the revised estimates (RE) for 2020-21 was Rs 9.05 lakh crore.
With the payments of the last instalment on Monday, advance tax collection for FY21 was around 7 per cent higher than last year's
Budget may resolve issues related to administration
Corporation advance tax jumps 50% in Q3
However, this is an improvement over the 40% decline seen in Q1; TDS down between 10 and 12% across jurisdictions
With technology companies largely unaffected by the Covid-19 lockdown, Bengaluru has posted a 7 per cent increase in direct tax mop-up
Numbers pose challenges to Centre's Rs 13.2-trn target
Only withheld refunds where assessee reply is awaited, says CBDT
He tells Dilasha Seth, in an interview, that 58,000 cases will be assessed through the faceless mechanism by October.
The Revised Estimate (RE) has pegged the target for collection of direct taxes for the current fiscal, which ends on March 31, at Rs 11.70 trillion