The government’s revenue collection under the Goods and Services Tax (GST) during the month of April 2018 has crossed the Rs 1 lakh crore mark for the first time since the launch of new tax regime on July 1 last year. According to the latest data released by the government, the total revenue mop-up under GST stood at Rs 1,03,458 crore in April 2018. Of which, Central GST (CGST) is Rs 18,652 crore, State GST (SGST) is Rs 25,704 crore, Integrated GST (IGST) is Rs 50,548 crore (including 21,246 crore collected on imports) and Cess is Rs 8554 crore (including Rs 702 crore collected on imports).
As per the data, so far 60.47 lakh GSTR 3B returns have been filed for March up to April 30, 2018 as against 87.12 lakh, who are eligible to file returns for March which is 69.5% of the total, higher than the trend seen in earlier months. Besides, it pointed out that April was also the month for filing of Quarterly Return for Composition Dealers. Out of 19.31 lakh composition dealers, 11.47 lakh have filed their quarterly return (GSTR 4) which is 59.40% and have paid a total tax of Rs 579 crore, which is included in the above figure of Rs 1.03 lakh crore of total GST collection.
Furthermore, data indicated that the total revenue earned by the Central Government and the State Governments after settlement in the month of April, 2018 is Rs 32,493 crore for CGST and Rs 40,257 crore for the SGST. Besides, the ministry has stated that the buoyancy in the tax revenue of GST reflects the upswing in the economy and better compliance. However, it is usually noticed that in the last month of the Financial Year, people also try to pay arrears of some of the previous months also and, therefore, this month’s revenue cannot be taken as trend for the future.
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