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Under GST provisions, the government collects integrated tax for Goods and Services utilization and later share this collection between the centre and states.

As per a message recently tweeted by the Ministry of Finance, the net direct tax (income tax, etc) amount collected for the financial year 2017-18 is over Rs 10.03 lakh crore, with a year on year growth of 18%, which is the highest in the past 7 years.

Malaysia is thinking to discard the goods and services tax (GST) in the country. It has been three years of GST roll out in Malaysia and it is advisable for India to move deliberately in the upcoming years as India also needs to stabilize the new indirect tax regime rolled out in July 2017.

The GSTN that powers India’s new destination based indirect tax, The GST, was never supposed to be a mere online portal for Tax Collection.

New Delhi, the National Capital, and Mumbai, the Financial Capital, are now recording an unprecedented increase in petrol and diesel prices.

After a thorough analysis of GST returns and tax data received so far, the GST Council has started issuing scrutiny notices to businesses who have not paid tax in the line of their final tax returns.

Arvind Subramanian, the Chief Economic Advisor to the Government of India, had a few months back asserted that Insights From GSTN Data Could Drive Economic Decisions.

Inspired by the continuous increase in tax compliance ever since the launch of the goods and services tax regime, the GST Council has set the target for GST revenue for the ongoing financial year (FY19) at Rs 12 trillion.

The GST collection for the FY 2017-18 stood at  Rs 7.41 lakh. India’s new indirect tax law that subsumed 17 indirect taxes (central and state included) was launched on the midnight of July 1st, 2017 from the ramparts of the Red Fort in Delhi.