The government’s revenue collection under the Goods and Services Tax (GST) has registered a marginal fall in the month of January 2018 (received up to February 25, 2018). According to the latest data released by the government, the total revenue mop-up under GST slipped by 0.44% to Rs 86,318 crore in January 2018 as compared to Rs 86,703 crore in December 2017. The GST collections had increased marginally in December after falling in the two previous months of November and October following the decision of the GST Council to cut rates on more than 200 items.
The government data indicated that 1.03 crore taxpayers have been registered under GST till February 25, of which 17.65 lakh are composition dealers who need to file returns every quarter. Of the total, 1.23 lakh composition dealers have opted out of scheme and have thus become regular taxpayers. Till February 25, there are 16.42 lakh composition dealers which are required to file returns every quarter and the rest of 87.03 lakh taxpayers are required to file monthly returns.
As per the data, so far 57.78 lakh GSTR 3B returns have been filed for the month of January till February 25, 2018. This is 69% of total taxpayers who are required to file monthly returns. Of the Rs 86,318 crore collected under the GST up to February 25, Rs 14,233 crore have been collected as CGST, Rs 19,961 crore as SGST, Rs 43,794 crore as IGST and Rs 8,331 as Compensation cess.
Further, Rs 11,327 crore is being transferred from IGST to CGST account, and Rs 13,479 crore to SGST account by way of settlement of funds on account of cross utilisation of IGST credit for payment of CGST and SGST, respectively or due to inter State B2C transactions. A total amount of Rs 24,806 crore is being transferred from IGST to CGST/SGST account by way of settlement.
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