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Efforts to shore up tax revenue appear to be showing results, with the direct tax collection set to exceed the revised estimate.
Finance
Ministry officials said the total direct taxes collection had touched
Rs. 6.36 lakh crore in 2013-14. Direct taxes include personal income
tax, corporate tax and wealth tax. Originally, the Budget estimate for
direct tax collection was Rs. 6.67 lakh crore.
Revenue
authorities made intense efforts to collect taxes, especially from
non-filers of returns. The department’s business intelligence project
identified 2.1 million potential non-filers, and sent 50,000 letters in
the first phase. More such letters were sent in phase two.
Indirect taxes
However,
there are doubts over achieving the revised estimates for indirect tax
collection, which include customs/import duty, excise duty and service
tax.
The Finance Ministry has scaled down the target to Rs. 5.20 lakh crore from the Budget estimate of Rs. 5.65 lakh crore.
Although officials refused to quantify the shortfall, collections are not likely to cross Rs. 5 lakh crore.
The
slowdown in manufacturing and lower growth in services have affected
collection of excise and service taxes, respectively, said officials.
(This article was published in the Business Line print edition dated April 5, 2014)
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