For the fiscal 12 months 2022–23, the federal government collected Rs 16.61 lakh crore in direct taxes, in keeping with information from the Finance Ministry. This quantity is 17.6 % more than what was collected for the earlier fiscal. Additionally, it has barely surpassed the revised estimate of Rs 16.5 lakh crore, as talked about in the 2023-24 Union Budget, by 0.7%.
The finance ministry in a press release mentioned , “refunds of Rs 3,07,352 crore (Rs 3.07 lakh crore) have been given out in FY 2022-23, which is 37.42 percent more than the refunds of Rs 2,23,658 crore (Rs 2.24 lakh crore) that were given out in FY 2021-22.”
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Without taking refunds into consideration, direct tax collections in 2022-23 shall be Rs 19.68 lakh crore, which is up 20.3% from 2021-22.
In phrases of how the cash was collected, the preliminary information exhibits that the gross company tax collections in 2022–23 have been Rs 10.04 lakh crore, which was 16.9% more than in 2021–22. The finance ministry mentioned that in 2021-22, the quantity of non-public gross earnings tax collected went up by 24.2% to Rs 9.61 lakh crore.
Due to higher-than-expected direct tax collections in 2022–23, the federal government now expects direct tax collections to develop by 9.8 % in 2023–24, as a substitute of the ten.5 % development predicted in the Budget introduced on February 1, which was based mostly on the nominal development in GDP that the finance ministry had assumed.
According to the Budget, the federal government expects to get Rs 18.24 lakh crore in direct taxes in 2023–24. Of this quantity, Rs 9.23 lakh crore will come from taxes on companies, and Rs 9.01 lakh crore will come from taxes on private earnings.
Since the numbers the finance ministry put out at present are solely estimates, they might go up even more.
