The Goods and Services Tax, GST collection scaled all-time high of over 1.13 lakh crore rupees last month, up from 1.06 lakh crore rupees in the previous month. The Finance Ministry in a statement said, out of the total gross GST revenue collected in April, Central GST is 21,163 crore rupees, State GST is 28,801 crore rupees, Integrated GST is 54,733 crore and cess is 9,168 crore rupees.
The total number of summary sales return GSTR-3B filed for the month of March up to 30th April stood at 72.13 lakh. The collection in the first month of current fiscal has been the highest since the introduction of GST and also reflects 10.05 per cent growth over April last year. The government has settled 20,370 crore rupees to CGST and 15,975 crores to SGST from IGST as regular settlement.