Page 5 - Direct Taxes

Top headlines: FY24 direct tax target, PM visits Bali, COP27 meet, and more

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Budget 2023-24: FY24 direct tax target likely to see 14-17% increase

Centre's FY23 mop-up may top BE by Rs 1-1.5 trn

Taxes to come to govt's aid, achieve 6.4% fiscal deficit goal for FY23

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

Direct tax kitty up 30% in FY23 at Rs 8.36 trn on higher advance tax mop-up

Gross direct tax collections grew 30 per cent to Rs 8.36 lakh crore till September 17 of current fiscal year on increased advance tax mop-up, the finance ministry said on Sunday. The gross collection of direct taxes (before adjusting for refunds) for FY 2022-23 stands at Rs 8,36,225 crore compared to Rs 6,42,287 crore in the corresponding period of preceding financial year i.e. 2021-22, registering a growth of 30 per cent over collections of 2021-22, the ministry said in a statement. The cumulative advance tax collections for April-September stand at Rs 2,95,308 crore as on September 17, up 17 per cent over the year-ago period. Gross collection of Rs 8.36 lakh crore includes Corporate Income Tax at Rs 4.36 lakh crore and Personal Income Tax (PIT), including Securities Transaction Tax at Rs 3.98 lakh crore. After adjusting for refunds, net collections rose 23 per cent to Rs 7,00,669 crore, compared to Rs 5,68,147 crore in the corresponding period of 2021-22.

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Direct tax mop-up jumps 35.5% to Rs 6.48 trillion in FY23: Govt

The ministry said refunds amounting to Rs 1.19 trillion have been issued till September 8 this fiscal year, 65.3 per cent higher than the refunds issued for the same period in FY22.

Amid robust tax growth, customs and excise duties decline over 10% in Q1

Receipts from customs and excise duties were down 10.59 per cent at Rs 97,695 crore in Q1 of FY'23

Income tax return: Missed ITR 2021-22 deadline? Here's what to do next

On the last day, July 31, over 6.5 million ITR were filed by 11 PM, according to the Income Tax Department

ITR: What happens if you miss July 31 deadline for filing income tax return

For people with an annual income of over Rs 2.5 lakh, filing an ITR is mandatory. Failing to do so may attract fines and penalties

Centre moots ruling authority to fix direct tax liability, settle disputes

Revenue dept to take up measures to boost tax-to-GDP ratio to 15-20%

Tax administration finally being cleaned up, being made more efficient

GST collections dropped below the Rs 1.2 trillion mark only once in the last six months. These are astounding statistics for a tax system that naysayers had written off as being a failure.

Income tax refunds of over Rs 1.83 trn issued so far this fiscal: I-T Dept

"CBDT issues refunds of over Rs 1,83,579 crore to more than 2.09 crore taxpayers from 1st Apr, 2021 to 28th Feb, 2022," the I-T department tweeted

Direct Taxes: Budget doesn't touch slabs, offers relief to co-ops, startups

FM reduces MAT for cooperative societies to 15% from 18.5%, bring them on par with companies; relief for state govt staff, differently-abled persons

Union Budget 2022: No tax break but important aspects addressed

NPS is the only scheme without any rupee value limit (the limit is a percentage of salary and not a specific rupee value) on the deduction

What are direct and indirect taxes?

There are two types of taxes which the government collects -- direct and indirect taxes. Get clarity on them ahead of the Union Budget for 2022-23, which may keep modest targets for tax collections

Sharing of powers of direct taxation and indirect taxation is unfair: TN

Tamil Nadu, according to the Finance Minister P T R Palanivel Thiagarajan, is one of the major States producing handloom, powerloom textiles and hosiery goods in the country

Net direct tax revenue rises 68% to Rs 6.92 trillion till Nov 23

The net collection between April 1 - November 23 in 2020-21 and 2019-20 fiscals was over Rs 4.12 trillion and over Rs 5.44 trillion respectively

RBI authorises Karur Vysya Bank to collect direct taxes on behalf of CBDT

Karur Vysya Bank said it has commenced the integration process with the Central Board of Direct Taxes to collect direct taxes on its behalf, following the approval it received from the Reserve Bank

Net direct tax mop-up grows 74% at Rs 5.7 trn so far this fiscal

Refunds amounting to Rs 75,111 crore have also been issued so far this fiscal.

Formal sector, administration raises tax kitty 29% in Apr-July from FY20

Year-on-year, the collections grew by 83%. This growth was misleading since it comes on a 30% drop in tax mop-up a year earlier