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Centre expecting to mop up Rs 55,000 crore by levy of cess in first 9 months of GST rollout

30 May 2017 Evaluate

In the remaining 9-month period of the current fiscal, following the Goods and Services Tax (GST) roll out from July 1, 2017, the Centre is expecting to mop up as much as Rs 55,000 crore by levy of cess, including a big chunk from demerit and luxury goods. The amount to be raised through cess on coal as well as luxury items and sin goods will be used for compensating states for revenue shortfall following the implementation of the new tax regime.

According to the revenue department's estimates, Rs 22,000 crore is expected to come from cess on coal, lignite and peat in the July-March period of current fiscal. Cess on tobacco is likely to yield around Rs 16,000 crore. The remaining amount in the ‘Goods and Services Tax Compensation Fund’ will come from cess on pan masala, aerated drinks and motor vehicles. The revenue department is hopeful that funds raised through different kinds of cess would be sufficient to take care any revenue shortfall that the states might face on account of GST roll-out.

Revenue Secretary Hasmukh Adhia had said that roughly, they would think that whatever compensation is required for current year it would be made good from the cess income which they will get this year and cess tables have been arranged accordingly. That is why they have levied cess even on small cars. The small cars have been kept within cess because there is an existing incidence on small cars and they didn't want to lose some revenues there. Besides, the GST Council had agreed on keeping base year for calculating the revenue of a state at 2015-16 and considering a secular growth rate of 14% for calculating the likely revenue of each state in the first five years of implementation of GST.

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