Net tax receipts were 1.35 trillion rupees ($18.05 billion), while total expenditure was 8.16 trillion rupees, the data showed, indicating the government was front-loading its spending to combat the impact of the coronavirus.
Reuters
India's fiscal deficit in the three months to end June stood at 6.62 trillion rupees ($88.52 billion), or 83.2 percent of the budgeted target for the current fiscal year, government data showed on Friday.
Net tax receipts were 1.35 trillion rupees ($18.05 billion), while total expenditure was 8.16 trillion rupees, the data showed, indicating the government was front-loading its spending to combat the impact of the coronavirus.
The deficit is predicted to cross 7.5 percent of GDP in the 2020/21 fiscal year that began in April, private economists said, from initial government estimates of 3.5 percent, mainly due to a sharp economic contraction triggered by the pandemic.
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First Published on Jul 31, 2020 04:50 pm