Rs 103492 crore gross GST revenue collected in the month of November 2019

The gross GST revenue collected in the month of November 2019 is Rs 103492 crore of which CGST is Rs 19592 crore, SGST is Rs 27144 crore, IGST is Rs 49028 crore (including Rs 20948 crore collected on imports) and Cess is Rs 7727 crore (including Rs 869 crore collected on imports). The total number of GSTR 3B Returns filed for the month of October up to 30 November 2019 is 77.83 lakh.

The government has settled Rs 25150 crore to CGST and Rs 17431 crore to SGST from IGST as regular settlement. The total revenue earned by Central Government and the State Governments after regular settlement in the month of November 2019 is Rs 44742 crore for CGST and Rs 44576 crore for the SGST.

After two months of negative growth, GST revenues witnessed an impressive recovery with a positive growth of 6% in November 2019 over the November 2018 collections. During the month, the GST collection on domestic transactions witnessed a growth of 12%, highest during the year. The GST collection on imports continued to see negative growth at (-) 13%, but was an improvement over last month's growth of (-) 20%.

This is the eighth time since the inception of GST in July 2017 that monthly collection has crossed the mark of Rs one lakh crore. Also, November 2019 collection is the third highest monthly collection since introduction of GST, next only to April 2019 and March 2019 collections.

Published On : 02-12-2019

Source : Business Standard