States get over Rs 11,900 crore as GST compensation in August-September

12 Nov 2018 Evaluate

After regular and ad-hoc settlement of Integrated GST (IGST) fund, over Rs 11,900 crore has been released to the states by the Centre from GST compensation fund during August-September. Besides, the bi-monthly Goods and Services Tax (GST) compensation paid during the June-July period was Rs 14,930 crore, nearly four-fold jump from Rs 3,899 crore paid in April and May.

The government collected a record Rs 1,00,710 crore from GST in the month of October. The returns filed and taxes collected in October reflect purchase and sale activities of September. The government has settled Rs 15,107 crore to states GST from IGST as regular settlement. Further, Rs 15,000 crore has been settled with the states from the balance IGST available with the Centre on provisional basis at the end of October. Total revenue earned by the state governments after regular and provisional settlement was Rs 52,934 crore in October.

10 states which are facing maximum revenue shortfall during April-August are Puducherry (42%), Punjab and Himachal Pradesh (36% each), Uttarakhand (35%), Jammu and Kashmir (28%), Chhattisgarh (26%), Goa (25%), Odisha (24%), Karnataka and Bihar (20%). The states faced an average 16% shortfall in GST mop-up in the first year of implementation (July 2017-March 2018), which has come down to 13% during April-August of the current fiscal. While only 6 states -- Mizoram, Arunachal, Manipur, Nagaland, Sikkim and Andhra Pradesh -- are facing revenue surplus in the current fiscal, 25 states are staring at a revenue shortfall and have to be compensated by the Centre.

In order to underpin revenues, Finance Secretary Hasmukh Adhia has already held discussions with tax officials in six states -- Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Puducherry, Jammu & Kashmir, Bihar and Uttarakhand. In 2017-18, the Centre had released Rs 41,147 crore to the states as GST compensation to ensure that the revenue of the states is protected at the level of 14% over the base year tax collection in 2015-16.

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