Government of India

Ministry of Finance

Department of Revenue

Central Board of Direct Taxes

New Delhi, 11th October, 2019

PRESS RELEASE

Release of Direct Tax Statistics

Central Board of Direct Taxes has been releasing key statistics relating to direct tax collections and administration in public domain from time to time.

In continuation of its efforts to place more and more information in public domain, the Central Board of Direct Taxes has further released Time-series data updated up to F.Y. 2018-19 and income-distribution data for A.Y. 2018-19 (F.Y. 2017-18).  The availability of the Time-series data and the income-distribution data in the public domain will be useful for the academicians, research scholars,  economists and the public at large in studying long-term trends of various indices of the effectiveness and efficiency of direct tax administration in India.

The new releases are available alongwith the older publications at www.incometaxindia.gov.in

(Surabhi Ahluwalia)

Commissioner of Income Tax

(Media & Technical Policy)

Official Spokesperson, CBDT.

Direct tax data release expands public access to time-series and income-distribution datasets for research and policy analysis. The Central Board of Direct Taxes released Time-series data updated to F.Y. 2018-19 and income-distribution data for A.Y. 2018-19 (F.Y. 2017-18) to expand public access to direct tax statistics; the datasets are available on the departmental website to aid analysis of long-term trends and assessment of tax administration effectiveness.