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 11th August, 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 the
month July 2015, along with growth rate over previous year in Annx. `A' & `B'.

Encls: As above

                                                      (Manish Mohan Govil)
                                                       Official Spokesperson
                                                                     [CBEC]
                                                    Phone No. 011- 2309 3667




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





                                                                               Annx. `A'

             CBEC PRESS RELEASE DATED 11.08.2015

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

                          For the month July 2015

                                                                       (Rs. in crores)
Tax Head                     For July                      Upto July              % of BE
            B.E.     2014-15 2015-16      %                              %      achievement
                                                 2014-15   2015-16
           2015-16                      Growth                         Growth

Customs    208336    15419    18996      23.2     54594     66076       21.0       31.7

Central
Excise*    228157    13512    22273      64.8     47579     83454       75.4       36.6

Service
Tax        209774    11871    15470      30.3     50723     60925       20.1       29.0


Total      646267    40802    56739      39.1    152896     210455      37.6       32.6



*Exclusive of cess administered by other departments.
                                                                                ANNX. `B'
         Summary of Revenue Collection during the month July, 2015



   Indirect Tax Revenue (Provisional) Collections Increase from Rs. 40,802 Crore in July,
2014 to Rs. 56,739 Crore during July 2015, thus registering an Increase of 39.1% during the
month July 2015 over the corresponding period in the Previous Year.

    Indirect Tax Revenue (Provisional) collections have increased from Rs 40,802 crore in July-
2014 to Rs. 56,739 crore during July - 2015. Thus an increase of 39.1% has been registered
during July-2015 over the corresponding period in the previous year. This is an achievement of
32.6 % of the target fixed for BE 2015-16.

    Customs collections have increased from Rs.15,419 crore during July-2014 to Rs. 18,996
crore during July-2015 registering an increase of 23.2 %. This is an achievement of 31.7 % of
the target fixed for BE 2015-16.






    Service Tax collections have increased from Rs. 11,871 crore in July-2014 to
Rs. 15,470 crore during July- 2015 registering an increase of 30.3 %. This is an achievement of
29.0 % of the target fixed at BE 2015-16.

     Central Excise collections have increased from Rs. 13,512 crore in July-2014 to Rs. 22,273
crore during July-2015 registering an increase of 64.8 %. This is an achievement of 36.6% of
the target fixed at BE 2015-16.