Chandigarh gets 8% more revenue in gross GST collected in September

Dushyant Singh Pundir
Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, October 2

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With improvement in tax collection, the UT got nearly 8 per cent more revenue in the gross Goods and Services Tax (GST) collected in September in comparison to the tax received in August.

An official of the Excise and Taxation Department said the UT would get Rs102 crore of the gross GST revenue collected in September, whereas, the department had received Rs94 crore in August 2020.

The gross GST revenue collected in September stood at Rs141 crore, including collection of Rs26 crore under the Central GST, Rs34 crore under the UTGST, and Rs81 crore under the Integrated GST.

However, the revenue for September was nearly 10 per cent less of the GST collected in the same month last year, which was Rs157 crore.

The gross GST collection in August this year was Rs138 crore, which was nearly 13 per cent less as compared to Rs160 crore tax collected in August 2019. Of the gross collection, Central GST was Rs26.34 crore, UTGST Rs36.61 crore and Integrated GST Rs74.88 crore.

The official said the GST collection in July was Rs108 crore. Due to imposition of the lockdown, the UT got meager revenue of Rs13 crore in April, which increased to Rs41 crore in May, the official added.

However, with selective opening of various business establishments in Unlock 1, the revenue collection witnessed a sharp increase and the UT collected Rs71 crore tax in June, the officials said.

The increase in revenue collection was a clear indication that businesses and other allied activities were gradually returning back to pre-Covid era, the official added.

The Excise and Taxation Department created a history by achieving 100 per cent compliance in filing of monthly tax returns in the country under the GST regime for the year 2017-18 and 2018-19 and 99.25 per cent in the financial year 2019-20. Due to lockdown, it was nearly 90 per cent in the financial year 2020-21.

The department had launched “Mission 100%” in January this year to accomplish 100 per cent compliance in filing of monthly tax returns (GSTR-3B).

The department took number of initiatives to achieve the target like regular interaction with trade and industry, setting up of helpdesk in the office to assist taxpayers in filing returns, sending regular SMSes on mobile phones and messages on e-mails of taxpayers, besides telephonic contacts and these initiatives yielded good results.