{"id":98651,"date":"2023-03-31T18:46:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-31T13:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tradebrains.in\/features\/?p=98651"},"modified":"2023-03-31T18:44:38","modified_gmt":"2023-03-31T13:14:38","slug":"biz-fiscal-deficit-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tradebrains.in\/features\/biz-fiscal-deficit-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Fiscal deficit touches 82.8% of full-year target in February: Govt data"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"trade-content_2\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center;\" id=\"trade-362013533\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/tradebrains.in\/get\/telegram\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-101992\" src=\"https:\/\/tradebrains.in\/features\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/telegram-channel-300x119.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"148\" height=\"59\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/publications\/CAAqBwgKMN3Epgswxc--Aw?hl=en-IN&amp;gl=IN&amp;ceid=IN%3Aen\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-123430\" src=\"https:\/\/tradebrains.in\/features\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/follow-on-google-news-300x82.png\" alt=\"follow-on-google-news\" width=\"222\" height=\"61\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tradebrains.in\/features\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/follow-on-google-news-300x82.png 300w, https:\/\/tradebrains.in\/features\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/follow-on-google-news-150x41.png 150w, https:\/\/tradebrains.in\/features\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/follow-on-google-news.png 468w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 222px) 100vw, 222px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><p>The central government&#8217;s fiscal deficit touched 82.8 per cent of the full-year target at the end of February due to higher expenses and lower revenue realisations, according to official data released on Friday.<\/p><div class=\"trade-content_7\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center;\" id=\"trade-3848563772\"><!-- Composite Start --> \r\n <div id=\"M923760ScriptRootC1549812\"> \r\n <\/div> \r\n <script src=\"https:\/\/jsc.mgid.com\/t\/r\/tradebrains.in.1549812.js\" async> \r\n <\/script> \r\n <!-- Composite End --><\/div><p>In actual terms, the fiscal deficit or gap between the expenditure and revenue collection during April-February period stood at Rs 14.53 lakh crore, as per the data from the Controller General of Accounts (CGA).<\/p><p>The fiscal deficit in the comparable period of 2021-22 was 82.7 per cent of that year&#8217;s Revised Estimate (RE) in the Budget.<\/p><p>For the full year 2022-23, the government expects the deficit at Rs 17.55 lakh crore or 6.4 per cent of the GDP.<\/p><div class=\"trade-content_5\" id=\"trade-2065855811\"><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-4023722985638610\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- in_content_2_news -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-4023722985638610\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7925020301\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><\/div><p>CGA data showed that the net tax collection in the first 11 months of this fiscal was at Rs 17,32,193 crore or 83 per cent of the RE for 2022-23. In the comparable period last fiscal, the collection stood at 83.9 per cent of the RE for 2021-22.<\/p><p>Total expenditure incurred by the government was Rs 34.93 lakh crore (83.4 per cent of RE 2022-23), out of which Rs 29,03,363 crore was on Revenue Account and Rs 5,90,227 crore was on Capital Account.<\/p><p>Out of the total revenue expenditure, Rs 7,98,957 crore was for interest payments and Rs 4,59,547 crore was on account of major subsidies.<\/p><p>In the Union Budget presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in the Lok Sabha on February 1, the fiscal deficit target for 2023-24 was pegged at 5.9 per cent the GDP.<\/p><p>For the current year ending March 2023, the deficit has been retained at 6.4 per cent of the GDP. The government borrows from the market to finance its fiscal deficit.<\/p><p>The government intends to bring the fiscal deficit below 4.5 per cent of the GDP by 2025-26. 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