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The federal government’s fiscal deficit stood at ₹ 4.68 lakh crore or 31.1 % of the Price range estimates on the finish of August, as per information launched by the Controller Basic of Accounts (CGA) on Thursday.
The deficit determine within the present fiscal seems significantly better than the earlier monetary yr when it had soared to 109.3 % of the estimates, primarily on account of a leap in expenditure to take care of the COVID-19 pandemic.
In absolute phrases, the fiscal deficit or hole between expenditure and income was ₹ 4,68,009 crore at finish of August, the CGA mentioned.
For the present monetary yr, the federal government expects the deficit at 6.8 % of GDP or ₹ 15,06,812 crore.
As per the information, the central authorities’s whole receipts stood at ₹ 8.08 lakh crore or 40.9 % of the corresponding Price range Estimate (BE) 2021-22 as much as August, 2021.
The full receipts have been 16.8 % of the BE of 2020-21 throughout the corresponding interval of the final monetary yr.
Of the full receipts, the tax income was ₹ 6.44 lakh crore or 41.7 % of BE. The tax income was solely 17.4 % of BE of 2020-21 within the year-ago interval.
The CGA mentioned Centre’s whole expenditure was ₹ 12.76 lakh crore or 36.7 % of BE as much as August 2021.
The fiscal deficit for 2020-21 was 9.3 % of the Gross Home Product (GDP), higher than 9.5 % projected within the revised estimates within the Price range in February.
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