Fiscal Deficit: India's fiscal deficit in June touches 68.7% of year's target

Fiscal Deficit: India's fiscal deficit in June touches 68.7% of year's target

NEW DELHI, July 31: India’s budgetary fiscal deficit rose further in June and stood at Rs 4.29 lakh crore touching 68.7 per cent of the current year’s target, official data showed on Tuesday.

The government has budgeted a fiscal deficit target of Rs 6.24 lakh crore for the financial year 2018-19. As per data from the Controller General of Accounts (CGA), the fiscal deficit up to the like period of the previous fiscal had stood at 80.8 per cent. The 2018-19 deficit the difference between revenue and expenditure has been pegged at 3.3 per cent of the country’s gross domestic product, or Rs 6.24 lakh crore, as compared to the revised estimates of Rs 5.94 lakh crore for the previous fiscal.

According to the CGA data, net tax revenue during the period under review was Rs 2.37 lakh crore or 16 per cent of the budget estimated target. The total receipts from revenue and non-debt capital during the fiscal’s first quarter (April-June) were Rs 2.68 lakh crore, or at 15.5 per cent of the estimates for the current financial year.

The data revealed that total expenditure incurred on revenue and capital during the April-June period was Rs 7.08 lakh crore or at 29 per cent of the entire fiscal’s estimate.

In this connection, American rating agency Moody’s said on Monday that the recent cut in Goods and Services Tax (GST) rates effected by the GST Council on 88 consumer goods will weigh on the Central government’s revenue collections and fiscal consolidation efforts. (IANS)

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