India's federal fiscal deficit touches 83.2% of annual target in April-June qtr
Friday,
31-Jul-2020
04:19 PM (IST)
India's federal fiscal deficit in the three months to end June stood at 6.62 trillion rupees ($88.52 billion), or 83.2% 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% of GDP in the 2020/21 fiscal year that began in April, private economists said, from initial government estimates of 3.5%, mainly due to a sharp economic contraction triggered by the pandemic.
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