Centre’s fiscal deficit touches 58.9% of full year target at January-end

Feb 28, 2022

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NEW DELHI: The central authorities’s fiscal deficit at end-January labored out at 58.9 per cent of the annual funds goal for 2021-22, in keeping with official information launched on Monday.
The fiscal deficit was 66.8 per cent of Revised Estimate (RE) of 2020-21 in the course of the corresponding interval of the final fiscal.
In precise phrases, the deficit was Rs 9,37,868 crore at end-January 2022 towards upwardly revised annual estimate of Rs 15.91 lakh crore, in keeping with the info launched by the Controller Common of Accounts (CGA).
The nation’s fiscal deficit — the distinction between whole income and whole expenditure of the federal government — is projected to be larger at 6.9 per cent this fiscal ending March 2022 as towards 6.8 per cent estimated earlier.
The overall receipts of the federal government at end-January have been Rs 18.71 lakh crore or 85.9 per cent of the Revised Estimates (RE) for 2021-22. The gathering was about 80 per cent of the RE of 2020-21 within the corresponding interval final fiscal.
The tax (web) income up to now have been at 87.7 per cent of the RE of 2021-22. It was 82 per cent of RE 2020-21 within the corresponding interval of final fiscal. In precise phrases, the web tax income stood at Rs 15.47 lakh crore throughout April-January 2021-22.
The CGA information additional mentioned central authorities’s whole expenditure at end-January stood at Rs 28.09 lakh crore or 74.5 per cent of this yr’s RE. It was 73 per cent of RE within the corresponding interval.
The fiscal deficit of the federal government for 2022-23 is estimated to be Rs 16,61,196 crore. The Revised Estimate for 2021-22 point out a fiscal deficit of Rs 15,91,089 crore as towards the Funds Estimate of Rs 15,06,812 crore.
The fiscal deficit for 2020-21 was 9.3 per cent of the gross home product (GDP).



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