Net tax receipts are 7.4pc higher than govt's initial budget target
Trend shows rising incomes of rich taxpayers and corporate profits Only a small section of Indian households earned above the annual tax-exempt threshold, most agricultural income exempted due to small farm size NEW DELHI – Income tax receipts in India, comprising personal and corporate levies, rose 17.
7 per cent year-on-year to nearly $235 billion in the 2023-24 financial year ending in March, reflecting the rising incomes of rich taxpayers and corporate profits. Net income tax receipts for the 2023-24 financial year ending in March rose to 19.58 trillion rupees , up from 16.64tr in the previous financial year, the Central Board of Direct Taxes said on Sunday. The net tax collections are 7.4pc higher than the government's initial budget target set in February 2023, said a statement by the CBDT, a wing of the federal finance ministry. The government revised its income tax collections target for 2023-24 in February this year to 19.45tr rupees, while presenting the interim budget for 2024-25.Net personal income tax collections, which include a security transaction tax levied on transactions of securities like stocks and mutual funds, rose by one-fourth to 10.44tr rupees in 2023-24 from a year earlier. Meanwhile, corporate tax collections rose 10.26pc to 9.11tr rupees from 8.26tr rupees in the same period, the statement said."This is a good news," said Arun Kumar, an economist and former professor at Delhi's Jawaharlal Nehru University, adding the figures were also a "sign of rising income inequality". The number of taxpayers who filed income tax returns rose to nearly 82 million in 2023-24, 9pc higher than in the previous financial year, according to government estimates. The higher growth in income tax, mostly paid by relatively wealthy individuals and big companies, reflected their rising incomes and higher returns from the stock market. Economists say only a small section of Indian households earned above the annual tax-exempt threshold of 300,000 rupees , while most agricultural income was exempted from tax because of the small, often subsistence size of farming plots. The workers' wages in small businesses and the farm sector, providing jobs to nearly 90pc of India's workers, grew at a much lower rate amid record unemployment among educated youth, Kumar said. Inequality in India has become more severe since the early 2000s, with the share of income and wealth held by the richest 1pc of the population rising to over 22pc and 40pc respectively by 2022-23, he said, citing a World Inequality Lab report.Pakistan, Iran sign agreements to take trade volume to $10bnA roastery in Finland has launched an AI-generated coffee blendIHC declares keeping Bushra Bibi in solitary confinement a form of torture
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