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Page 26 - Latest Updates on Fiscal Deficit

Budget 2019: Time for govt to restore its credibility, get numbers right

Restoring the finance ministry's credibility requires more than ensuring that the fiscal deficit numbers are believable

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Updated On : 03 Jul 2019 | 10:56 AM IST

Some medium-term fiscal arithmetic

A medium-term macro-fiscal exercise will make clear the analytical choices and trade-offs that the government faces

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Updated On : 02 Jul 2019 | 12:36 PM IST

Fiscal deficit hits 52% of FY20 budgeted target at Rs 3.66 trillion

Net tax receipts in the first two months of the fiscal year were Rs 1.15 trillion, while total expenditure was Rs 5.13 trillion, government data showed

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Updated On : 02 Jul 2019 | 12:08 PM IST

Pace of revenue expenditure slows as fiscal deficit target looms

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has said the fiscal deficit target of 3.3 per cent of gross domestic product (GDP) will be met without any cut in capital expenditure

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Updated On : 02 Jul 2019 | 12:00 PM IST

Fiscal deficit hits 52% of budgeted target in first two months of FY20

Expenditure during the April-May period stood at Rs 5.12 trillion or 18.4 per cent of the Budget estimates

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Updated On : 29 Jun 2019 | 1:51 AM IST

Greater slippage likely to raise questions over fiscal arithmetic for FY20

The interim Budget pegs collections from CGST for the full year at Rs 5.04 trillion

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Updated On : 26 Jun 2019 | 3:40 PM IST

Fiscal deficit to revenue target: Crunching the Budget numbers

With GST revenues coming well below expectations, the Centre failed to meet its budgeted fiscal deficit target yet again

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Updated On : 26 Jun 2019 | 3:40 PM IST

States, schemes and disaster management bear cost of fiscal discipline

Farm sector spend took a hit, as PM-KISAN beneficiaries remained largely unidentified

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Updated On : 08 Jun 2019 | 11:42 PM IST

Achieving a fiscal miracle

The government managed to recover more by way of loan repayments and increase its disinvestment receipts over and above what was mentioned in the revised estimates

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Updated On : 05 Jun 2019 | 12:37 AM IST

Modi govt meets revised fiscal deficit target of 3.4% for 2018-19

The revenue deficit for the entire FY19 came in at 108.2% of the full year target, compared to 102% for FY18

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Updated On : 31 May 2019 | 10:46 PM IST

Govt meets its interim budget fiscal deficit target of 3.4% for 2018-19

In absolute terms, fiscal deficit at the end of March 31, 2019, stood at Rs 6.45 trillion as against Rs 6.34 trillion in the revised estimates of Budget

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Updated On : 31 May 2019 | 5:56 PM IST

States may cause fiscal slippage because of populist schemes, warns RBI

Loan waivers, income support schemes are 'poor fiscal marksmanship', says RBI in meeting with Finance Commission.

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Updated On : 08 May 2019 | 11:44 PM IST

Why the government must sell urban land

The time has come for the finance ministry and the RBI governor to sit down and work out a new way of 'additional resource mobilisation'

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Updated On : 04 May 2019 | 10:05 AM IST

Govt manages to meet revised fiscal deficit target of 3.4% of GDP

Finance Secretary Subhash Chandra Garg said the government is close to meeting fiscal deficit target of 3.4% for 2018-19

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Updated On : 10 Apr 2019 | 2:26 AM IST

Govt close to meeting fiscal deficit target of 3.4%: Economic Affairs Secy

The government at many occasions had indicated that there might be some shortfall on indirect taxes collection side during 2018-19 but not on direct tax front

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Updated On : 04 Apr 2019 | 10:29 PM IST

India's April-February fiscal deficit at 134% of FY target: Govt data

India's April-February fiscal deficit touched Rs 8.51 trillion ($123.07 billion), or 134.2 per cent of the budgeted target for the current fiscal year

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Updated On : 30 Mar 2019 | 12:46 AM IST

To meet fiscal target, govt to compress spending by Rs 60,000 crore

This compression will include subsidy carry-overs of as much as Rs 35,000 crore, ministries returning unspent amounts of as much as Rs 20,000 crore combined, and capital expenditure (capex) cuts

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Updated On : 11 Mar 2019 | 1:21 AM IST

Govt will meet fiscal deficit target of 3.4 per cent in FY'19: S C Garg

As per the interim Budget 2019-20, the government has pegged fiscal deficit target of 3.4 per cent for the current fiscal year ending March 31

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Updated On : 09 Mar 2019 | 1:29 AM IST

Fiscal deficit woes: Slight relief to govt from new GDP numbers

Economists are hopeful that the government will be able to rein in fiscal deficit at the revised targeted level

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Updated On : 02 Mar 2019 | 11:15 PM IST

Fiscal deficit breaches full-year target by 21.5% in 10 months

Capital expenditure contracts 13% in April-January period

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Updated On : 26 Feb 2019 | 11:22 PM IST