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MUMBAI: The nation’s financial progress within the March quarter is more likely to be 8% or extra, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman has stated.”If this is how inflation management is happening, macroeconomic stability being what it is, you had three-quarters of growth above 8%, and hopefully, the fourth quarter, which ends tomorrow, will also be 8% or over 8%, resulting in 2023-24 having a GDP growth of 8% or over 8%,” FM stated at an occasion organised by Mint Saturday.GDP progress within the Oct-Dec quarter was a scorching 8.4% led by strong manufacturing sector enlargement. Information for the March-quarter GDP can be launched on Could 31.”Three-quarters of growth over 8% is good news, and I thank the people of India for being very energetic and ensuring that India remains the fastest-growing economy,” stated Sitharaman.She stated the commentary on consumption was due to a sequential comparability of consumption numbers. “Do you think we would have had 8% growth without consumption?” she requested.The minister stated that the latest spike in earnings tax notices was due to a brand new rule driving the tax division to ship notices out earlier than they grew to become time-barred and due to digitisation. “Every time through the year, notices are sent so that the assessment does not get time-barred before the six-year limitation sets in on March 31. So, they are rushing a lot of these notices to say, ‘Hey, I have asked you a question; reply, and we will take it up further.’ It is not harassment; it is because of compliance requirements for the board to ensure that getting information does not get time barred.”Sitharaman stated that some outdated data, that are nonetheless in guide type, at the moment are being digitised. “If a notice comes to you saying, ‘We do not have this information about you, can you fill it in?’, it is more because of the gap in data resulting from the transition from manual to digital,” the FM stated.

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