India's fiscal deficit for the first five months of the financial year that started April 1 was 6.43 trillion rupees ($77.43 billion), 36% of the estimate for the whole year, government data showed on Friday.
April-Aug net tax revenues were 8.04 trillion rupees, or 34.5% of the annual estimate, higher than 7 trillion rupees in the same period last year, according to the data.