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Goods and Services Tax (GST) - GST collections during financial year 2017-2018 stood at ₹ 7.19 lakh crore

Goods and Services Tax (GST) collections during financial year 2017-2018 stood at 7.19 lakh crore. This collection includes the August 2017 to March 2018 period and 1.19 lakh crore of Central GST, 1.72 lakh crore of State GST and 3.66 lakh crore of Integrated GST.

The IGST collections include 1.73 lakh crore tax on imports and 62,021 crore of cess. A Finance Ministry statement said, “For this eight months, the average monthly collection has been 89,885 crore.”

The SGST collection during the year, including the settlement of IGST has been 2.91 lakh crore and the total compensation released to the States for the period was 41,147 crore. The compensation is to ensure that the revenue of the states is protected at the level of 14 per cent over the base year tax collection in 2015-2016. “The revenue gap of each State is coming down over last eight months. The average revenue gap of all states for last year is around 17 per cent,” the statement added.

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