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Revenue collection under GST drops to Rs 85,174 crore in February

28 Mar 2018 Evaluate

Continuing its declining trend for the second straight month, the government’s revenue collection under Goods and Services Tax (GST) decreased marginally by 1.33% to Rs 85,174 crore (received up to March 26) in the month of February, as against Rs 86,318 crore in January. This marginal decline is because only 69% of total taxpayers filed returns. The finance ministry in its statement has said that around 59.51 lakh GSTR 3B returns were filed for the month of February till March 25.

Out of the total revenue collection, Central GST (CGST) collection was Rs 14,945 crore and State GST (SGST) collection was Rs 20,456 crore. Integrated GST (IGST) collections stood at Rs 42,456 crore, while the Centre released Rs 7,317 crore as compensation cess. Besides, a total amount of Rs 25,564 crore is being transferred from IGST to CGST/SGST account by way of settlement. Thus, the total collection of CGST and SGST up to March 26 (for February) is Rs 27,085 crore and Rs 33,880 crore respectively, including transfers by way of settlement.

Moreover, 1.05 crore taxpayers have been registered under GST till March 25, 2018. Of these, 18.17 lakh are composition dealers which are required to file returns every quarter and the rest of 86.37 lakh taxpayers are required to file monthly returns. As per the finance ministry data, GST collections were Rs 93,590 crore in July, Rs 93,029 crore in August, Rs 95,132 crore in September, Rs 85,931 crore in October, Rs 83,716 crore in November and Rs 88,929 crore in December.

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