Monthly GST revenues more than Rs 1.4 lakh crore for seven months in a row
Team News Riveting
New Delhi, October 1
The gross GST revenue collected in the month of September 2022 is Rs 1,47,686 crore of which CGST is Rs 25,271 crore, SGST is Rs 31,813 crore, IGST is Rs 80,464crore (including Rs 41,215 crore collected on import of goods) and Cess is Rs 10,137 crore (including ₹ 856 crore collected on import of goods).
The government has settled Rs 31,880 crore to CGST and Rs 27,403 crore to SGST from IGST as regular settlement. The total revenue of Centre and the States after regular settlements in the month of September 2022 is Rs 57,151 crore for CGST and Rs 59,216 crore for the SGST.
The revenues for the month of September 2022 are 26 per cent higher than the GST revenues in the same month last year. During the month, revenues from import of goods was 39 per cent higher and the revenues from domestic transaction (including import of services) are 22 per cent higher than the revenues from these sources during the same month last year.
This is the eighth month and for seventh months in a row now, that the monthly GST revenues have been more than the Rs 1.4 lakh crore mark. The growth in GST revenue till September 2022 over the same period last year is 27 per cent, continuing to display very high buoyancy. During the month of August 2022, 7.7 crore e-way bills were generated, which was marginally higher than 7.5 crore in July 2022.
This month witnessed the second highest single day collection of Rs 49,453 crore on 20th September with second highest number of 8.77 lakh challans filed, next only to Rs 57,846 crore collected on 20th July 2022 through 9.58 lakh challans, which pertained to end of the year returns. This clearly shows that the GST portal maintained by GSTN has fully stabilized and is glitch free. September also saw another milestone getting crossed when more than 1.1 crore e-way bills and e-invoices, combined (72.94 lakh e-invoices and 37.74 lakh e-way bills), were generated without any glitch on the portal run by NIC on 30th September 2022.
