The Central Government’s fiscal deficit touched 20.5% of the annual target at the end of July 2022-23 against 21.3% a year ago, reflecting improvement in public finance, as per official data released on Wednesday.
In actual terms, the fiscal deficit – the difference between expenditure and revenue – was ₹3,40,831 crore during the April-July period this financial year.
A fiscal deficit is a reflection of government borrowings from the market.
As per the data released by the Controller General of Accounts (CGA), the government’s receipts, including taxes, stood at ₹7.85 lakh crore or 34.4% of the Budget Estimates (BE) for 2022-23. During the year-ago period, it was nearly the same at 34.6%.
The tax revenue stood at ₹6.66 lakh crore or 34.4% of this year’s BE. Last year too, the government had managed to mop 34.2% of its annual estimate during April-July.
The data further revealed that the Central Government’s total expenditure was ₹11.26 lakh crore or 28.6% of the BE 2022-23, almost same as in the year-ago period.
Capital expenditure was 27.8% of the full-year budget target compared to 23.2% in the corresponding period last year, as per the monthly account of the Union government up to July 2022, released by the CGA.
For 2022-23, the fiscal deficit of the government is estimated to be ₹16.61 lakh crore or 6.4% of the GDP.
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