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What is Tax Revenue

Taxation is the primary source of income for the government. The most important revenue receipts for the government, taxes are involuntary fees levied on individuals and corporations to finance government activities. Revenue receipts can be of two types — non-tax revenue and tax revenue. Tax revenue is the income gained by the government through taxation.
 
Tax revenue forms a part of the Receipt Budget, which in turn is part of the Annual Financial Statement of the Union Budget.
 
Tax revenue is the result of the application of a tax rate to a tax base. Total tax revenue as a percentage of GDP indicates the share of the country's output collected by the government through taxes. Tax revenue can be regarded as one measure of the degree to which the government controls the economy's resources.
 
Taxes collected from both direct tax and indirect tax are the government’s tax revenue. It includes collections from income tax, corporation tax, customs, wealth tax, tax on land revenue, etc.
 
Direct tax is the tax that is paid directly to the government by the person or company on whom it is levied. Income tax, wealth tax, corporation tax and property tax are some examples of direct tax. Indirect taxes are those that are collected by intermediaries from individuals and corporations who bear the burden of the tax and passed on to the government. Goods and Services Tax (GST) is an example of indirect tax. Corporation tax forms a large chunk of the government’s tax revenue.
 

Latest Updates on Tax Revenue

In a statement, the Gujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation Ltd (GCMMF) said it has registered a provisional turnover of Rs 55,055 crore for the financial year 2022-23

Updated On: 02 Apr 2023 | 7:43 PM IST

Sethi further noted that occupancy dipped only once during this period to 53 per cent due to lockdown enforced during the first phase of the pandemic

Updated On: 24 Mar 2023 | 8:49 PM IST

An RBI report recently highlighted the grim fiscal condition of ten states. And of them, five seem to be in dire condition. What ails these states? What can be done to revive their economy?

Updated On: 29 Dec 2022 | 7:00 AM IST

Experts say finance commission needs to provide clarity on whether cess should be shared with states

Updated On: 29 Dec 2022 | 11:16 PM IST

Any refund you are eligible for won't be processed unless you correct the mistakes in your return

Updated On: 22 Dec 2022 | 10:07 PM IST

Direct tax collections stood at Rs 11,35,754 crore, as on December 17, 2022, up by 19.81 per cent against Rs 9,47,959 crore recorded in the corresponding period of last year, officials said

Updated On: 18 Dec 2022 | 9:45 PM IST

A new tax intelligence unit has been set up in Punjab to boost tax collections by improving compliance, Punjab Finance Minister Harpal Cheema said on Tuesday

Updated On: 08 Nov 2022 | 10:16 PM IST

The Centre is hopeful of keeping the fiscal deficit at 6.4 per cent of nominal GDP in FY23

Updated On: 31 Oct 2022 | 11:34 PM IST

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is expected to present the next Budget on February 1

Updated On: 31 Oct 2022 | 7:40 PM IST

Israel has decided to withhold 600 million shekels in tax revenues it has collected for the Palestinian Authority to offset the latter's compensation for "attackers" against the Jewish state.

Updated On: 01 Aug 2022 | 1:47 PM IST

Non-tax revenue came in at Rs 49,251 crore, or 18.3 per cent of the full year target of Rs 2.69 trillion, compared with 48 per cent for the same period last year

Updated On: 01 Jul 2022 | 2:21 AM IST

The impact of Saturday's excise duty cuts will be Rs 1 trillion for a year, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman had said

Updated On: 23 May 2022 | 6:03 AM IST

Their tax revenues can't keep up with their largesse: it's a policy that risks putting them in economic peril

Updated On: 20 Apr 2022 | 4:03 PM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2019 envisioned making India a USD 5 trillion economy and a global economic powerhouse. The Indian GDP is estimated to be around USD 3 trillion in 2021-22

Updated On: 15 Apr 2022 | 12:30 AM IST

If much higher profits this year do not propel corporation tax revenue to a level higher than the FY19 peak, something must be wrong with corporation tax, writes T N Ninan

Updated On: 14 Jan 2022 | 10:47 PM IST

As an international consortium of journalists unearths the 'Pandora' list of stashes in tax havens, accountability becomes the call of the day. But what we get instead is hypocrisy, rues T N Ninan

Updated On: 08 Oct 2021 | 10:47 PM IST

Private drive could taper off, high tax revenue notwithstanding

Updated On: 06 Sep 2021 | 12:03 AM IST

The government is expecting a 'robust' tax revenue in the current fiscal on the back of better-than-expected corporate sector performance, Revenue Secretary Tarun Bajaj said

Updated On: 11 Aug 2021 | 1:32 PM IST

Direct-tax-to-GDP ratio in the first quarter of 2021-22 increased to 5.14 per cent, compared with 3.29 per cent over the last two years

Updated On: 03 Aug 2021 | 10:02 PM IST

Tax, revenue and macroeconomic trends are encouraging, but more needs to be done on privatisation, clean-up of banking mess, anti-protectionism, and de-politicisation of govt bodies, writes T N Ninan

Updated On: 30 Jul 2021 | 10:29 PM IST