Goods and Services Tax (GST) collections hit an all-time excessive of Rs 1,23,902 crore in March, knowledge launched by Finance Ministry confirmed. On a month-to-month foundation GST collections rose by 9.5 per cent from Rs 1,13,143 crore in February. “GST revenues crossed above Rs 1 lakh crore-mark at a stretch for the final six months and a steep growing development over this era are clear indicators of fast financial restoration publish pandemic,” Finance Ministry said in a press release.
The government settled Rs 21,879 crore to CGST and Rs 17,230 crore to SGST from IGST as a regular settlement. In addition, Centre has also settled Rs 28,000 crore as IGST ad-hoc settlement in the ratio of 50:50 between Centre and States/UTs.
The complete income of Centre and the States after common and ad-hoc settlements within the month of March’ 2021 is Rs 58,852 crore for CGST and Rs 60,559 crore for the SGST. Centre has additionally launched a compensation of Rs 30,000 crore in the course of the month of March 2021.
According to the Finance Ministry, the gross GST income collected in March 2021 stood at Rs 1,23,902 crore, of which central GST or CGST is Rs 22,973 crore and state GST or SGST is Rs 29,329 crore. Also, of the identical quantity, the built-in GST is Rs 62,842 crore (together with Rs 31,097 crore collected on import of products) and cess is Rs 8,757 crore (together with Rs 935 crore collected on import of products).
The GST income throughout March 2021 is the very best for the reason that introduction of the GST system by the federal government. In line with the development of restoration in GST revenues over the previous 5 months, the revenues for March 2021 are 27 per cent greater than the GST revenues within the corresponding month final yr.