The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) said net direct tax collection of Rs 6.92 lakh crore includes Corporation Tax (CIT) of Rs 2.2 lakh crore
At this pace, the mop-up is likely to be around Rs 19 lakh crore in the fiscal ending on March 31, 2024, exceeding the estimate of Rs 18.23 lakh crore in the 2023-24 Budget.
The Advance Tax collections for Financial Year 2023-24 as on September 16 stand at Rs. 3.55 lakh crore as compared to Rs 2.94 lakh crore for the corresponding period of previous fiscal.
Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) Chairman Nitin Gupta also said that the Budget for next fiscal could bring about some tweaks in the TDS provision for online gaming to check tax evasion.
The gross collection of taxes on corporate earnings rose 16.74 per cent during April 1 to October 8, while personal income tax collection jumped 32.30 per cent, the tax department said in a statement.
The Centre's total net direct tax collection, which includes advance tax, dropped 17.6 percent in FY21 as direct tax collected up to December 15 stood at Rs 4.95 lakh crore as against Rs 6.01 lakh crore for the same period a year ago.
The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) on August 5 laid out the target for achieving the government's revised direct tax collection of Rs 13.35 lakh crore.
"Direct tax collections for FY2017-18 has been Rs 10,02,607 crore (18 per cent higher than previous year). The data reveals the efficiency of tax department and rise in no. of honest tax payers. This historical revenue receipt is a factual testimony of accountable governance under PM @narendramodi ji," Jaitley tweeted.
Direct tax collections in 2017-18 at Rs 9.95 lakh crore, exceeded the revised budgetary target of Rs 9.8 lakh crore.
In the budget, Jaitley had announced a mega healthcare plan to provide 10-crore poor families with insurance cover against hospitalisation that will cost up to Rs 12,000 crore annually.
The government is likely to miss direct tax collection target for FY17. CNBC-TV18's Timsy Jaipuria decodes the details.
Direct tax collection registered a growth of 24.79 percent to Rs 1.24 lakh crore during April-June period, mainly on account of early advance tax mop-up
The department has so far collected Rs 6,85,972 crore during the year gone by against the projected target of Rs 7,05,000 crore for fiscal 2015, thus falling short of Rs 19,028 crore as per the data internally released by the Department on April 4, a senior IT official told PTI here today.
Even as the outlook on the economy continues to remain bleak, Finance Minister P Chidambaram is hopeful that the direct tax collection target for the current fiscal will be achieved.
The net direct tax collection has increased by 9.28% to Rs 3.46 lakh crore in the April-January period mainly on account higher realisation of personal income tax and corporate tax.