Govt’s GST collection for November slows to Rs 80,808 crore

27 Dec 2017 Evaluate

Falling for the second month in a row, the government’s revenue collection under the Goods and Services Tax (GST) stood at Rs 80,808 crore in the month of November, down from more than Rs 83,000 crore in the previous month. The decline is partly due to sharp cuts in the tax on over 200 items from November 15. Till December 25, 99.01 lakh taxpayers have been registered under GST, out of which 16.60 lakh are composition dealers who are required to file returns every quarter. As many as 53.06 lakh returns were filed for November till December 25.

As per the data, out of the total GST collections of Rs 80,808 crore up to December 25, around Rs 13,089 crore have been collected as the Central GST (CGST), while Rs 18,650 crore have been collected as the State GST (SGST), Rs 41,270 crore has been collected as Integrated GST (IGST) and Rs 7,798 crore has been collected as compensation cess. It also indicated that Rs 10,348 crore is being transferred from IGST to CGST account and Rs 14,488 crore transferred from IGST to SGST account by way of settlement of funds of cross utilisation of IGST credit for payment of CGST and SGST respectively or due to inter State B2C transactions. Therefore, the data noted that a total amount of Rs 24,836 crore is being transferred from IGST to CGST/SGST account by way of settlement.

Meanwhile, the total collection of CGST and SGST for the month of December, 2017 (up to December 25) is Rs 23,437 crore and Rs 33,138 crore, respectively. Besides, GST collections were over Rs 95,000 crore in July, over Rs 91,000 crore were collected in August and Rs 92,150 cror e in September.

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