The number of effective income tax assesses as well as the number of registered Central Excise and Service Tax assesses during the years 2006-07 to 2010-11 are as under:

The Revenue Collected from direct and indirect taxes during the above period, is as given below.

The primary reason for increased revenue collection are increase in GDP, changes in tax legislation, improved efficiency of tax administration, etc, according to S.S. Palanimanickam, MOS, Finance, in a written reply to a question in the Rajya Sabha yesterday.