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Fiscal deficit at 17.9% of full-year target at end of June: CGA data
Aug-01-2025

The Controller General of Accounts (CGA) data has indicated that the central government’s fiscal deficit stood at 17.9 per cent of the full-year target at the end of June. In previous financial year, the fiscal deficit was reported at 8.4 per cent of Budget Estimates (BE) of 2024-25. The fiscal deficit is gap between the government’s expenditure and revenue. 

During the April-June period of the fiscal year 2025-26, government’s fiscal deficit was recorded at Rs 2,80,732 crore. Further, for the fiscal year 2025-26, the Centre estimates the fiscal deficit at 4.4 per cent of the GDP, or Rs 15.69 lakh crore.

The data showed that net tax revenue of the government was recorded at Rs 5.4 lakh crore or 19 per cent of corresponding BE 2025-26 of total receipts, up to June 2025. Meanwhile, it was at 21.3 per cent of BE 2024-25 in the corresponding period of the previous fiscal year. The data on monthly accounts showed that the total expenditure during the first quarter was at Rs 12.22 lakh crore, or 24.1 per cent of BE. It was at 20.1 per cent of BE in the same period last year.


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