India’s GST collection rises 6.5% y-o-y to Rs 1.86 lakh crore in August

India collected Rs 1.86 lakh crore as items and companies tax in August, 6.5% larger than the identical interval final 12 months, confirmed authorities knowledge on Monday.

For the earlier month, India’s gross Items and Providers Tax (GST) assortment stood at Rs 1.96 lakh crore, authorities knowledge confirmed Friday.

In April 2025, the GST collections had surged to an all-time excessive of Rs 2.37 lakh crore.

The gross home income grew 6.6% to Rs 1.36 lakh crore in August when in comparison with similar time final 12 months. Whereas the tax from imports fell by 1.2% y-o-y to Rs 49,354 crore in August.

‘Subsequent gen reforms’

Earlier on Independence Day, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had introduced that the following era reforms in GST will probably be unveiled by Diwali, which is able to present ‘substantial’ tax reduction to frequent man and profit small and medium enterprises. The PM in the course of the deal with introduced that the time has come to undertake reforms in GST because the oblique tax regime has accomplished 8 years.

ET had just lately reported that the opposition-ruled states are in favour of GST rationalisation although they sought a mechanism to protect in opposition to profiteering by companies and to make sure the advantages of price rationalisation attain the frequent man.

The GST Council is scheduled to fulfill from September 3-4, the place Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and state finance ministers will focus on two-slab taxation of 5 and 18 per cent. The council can even deliberate on stories by three Teams of Ministers (GoMs) on price rationalisation, compensation cess, and insurance coverage taxation.