Centre releases Rs 1,65,302 crore GST compensation to States, UTs

28 Jul 2020 Evaluate
The Central government has released Goods and Services Tax (GST) compensation of Rs 13,806 crore to states and Union Territories for March 2020. Taking this amount into account, entire compensation up to 2019-20 has been released to States. 

The total amount of compensation released for the year 2019-20 is Rs 1,65,302 crore whereas the amount of cess collected during the year 2019-20 was Rs 95,444 crore. To release the compensation for 2019-20, balance of cess amount collected during 2017-18 and 2018-19 was also utilised.

In addition, the Centre had transferred Rs 33,412 crore from Consolidated Fund of India to the Compensation Fund as a part of an exercise to apportion balance of IGST pertaining to 2017-18. Maharashtra received the maximum Rs 19233 crore GST Compensation from the centre, followed by Karnataka (Rs 18628 crore) and Gujarat (Rs 14801 crore). 

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