F. No.297/07/2015-CX.9
                               Govt. of India
                            Ministry of Finance
                          Department of Revenue
                   (Central Board of Excise and Customs)

                                           New Delhi, the 12th February, 2015


                          OFFICE MEMORANDUM


      Please find enclosed a press release issued by Central Board of Excise and
Customs giving details of indirect tax revenue (provisional) collections during
April-January 2015, along with growth rate over previous year in Annx. `A' & `B'.






Encls: As above

                                                                        Sd/-
                                                      (Hemambika R. Priya
                                                     Commissioner Co-ord.
                                                                    [CBEC]
                                                   Phone No. 011- 2309 2038




Sh. D.S. Malik,
ADG (M&C)
Ministry of Finance.
North Block, New Delhi.
                                                                          Annx. `A'

             CBEC PRESS RELEASE DATED 12.02.2015

     Details of Indirect Tax revenue (provisional) collections
during April-January 2015, along with growth rate compared to
the corresponding period in the previous year.

                 For the period April ­ January 2015

                                                                   (Rs. in crores)
Tax Head             For the month       %      Upto the month       %      % of BE
             B.E.    2013-14 2014-15   Growth   2013-14 2014-15    growth   achieved
           2014-15
Customs    201819     16550    16718     1.0     142835   155248    8.7       76.9

Central    205452     15330    20755     35.4    133207   140284    5.3       68.3
Excise*
Service    215973     12309    13086     6.3     122196   132290    8.3       61.3
Tax

Total      623244     44189    50559     14.4    398238   427822    7.4       68.6



*Exclusive of cess administered by other departments.
                                                                                  ANNX. `B'
              Summary of Revenue Collection upto January 2015

   Indirect Tax Revenue (Provisional) Collections Increase from Rs. 3,98,238 Crore in
April-January 2014 to Rs. 4,27,822 Crore during April-January 2015, thus registering an
Increase of 7.4% during April-January 2015 over the corresponding period in the Previous
Year.

    Indirect Tax Revenue (Provisional) collections have increased from Rs 3,98,238 crore in
April-January 2014 to Rs. 4,27,822 crore during April-January 2015. Thus an increase of 7.4%
has been registered during April-January 2015 over the corresponding period in the previous year.
This is an achievement of 68.6 % of the target fixed for BE 2014-15.

    Customs collections have increased from Rs.1,42,835 crore during April-January 2014 to
Rs.1,55,248 crore during April-January 2015 registering an increase of 8.7%. This is an
achievement of 76.9% of the target fixed for BE 2014-15.






    Service Tax collections have increased from Rs. 1,22,196 crore in April-January 2014 to
Rs. 1,32,290 crore during April-January 2015 registering an increase of 8.3%. This is an
achievement of 61.3% of the target fixed at BE 2014-15.

     Central Excise collections have increased from Rs. 1,33,207crore in April-January 2014 to
Rs. 1,40,284 crore during April-January 2015 registering an increase of 5.3%. This is an
achievement of 68.3% of the target fixed at BE 2014-15.