India's April-July fiscal deficit at 86.5 percent of full-year target

Reuters  |  NEW DELHI 

(Reuters) - reported on Friday a fiscal deficit of 5.4 trillion rupees ($76.12 billion) for April-July, or 86.5 percent of the budgeted target for the current fiscal year compared with 92.4 percent a year earlier.

Net tax receipts in the first four months of 2018/19 fiscal year that ends in March 2019 were 2.93 trillion rupees, government data showed.

expects to trim the deficit to 3.3 percent of GDP this fiscal year, after meeting an upwardly revised fiscal deficit target of 3.5 percent of GDP in 2017/18.

($1 = 70.9400 Indian rupees)

(Reporting by Manoj Kumar; Editing by Malini Menon)

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First Published: Fri, August 31 2018. 15:47 IST