I-T collection cost falls to 20-year low
Mint Mumbai|April 25, 2023
 The Income Tax department’s cost of tax collection has dropped to around 0.5% of the total taxes collected in FY22, the lowest in more than two decades, amid tech-enabled oversight of economic activity and a widening net of taxes deducted at source (TDS)
Gireesh Chandra Prasad
I-T collection cost falls to 20-year low

New Delhi: Data with the I-T department showed that the cost of collection has dropped to 0.53% of the total direct tax receipts of 14.12 trillion in FY22, down from 1.36% in the financial year 2000-01. Between FY16 and FY20, it ranged between 0.61% to 0.66% before briefly going up to 0.76% in the pandemic year of FY21 that bore the brunt of a harsh national lockdown, before falling further in FY22.

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