GST has helped crimson meat up tax buoyancy, says Finance Minister
Business new tamfitronics Recent Delhi: Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday said GST has helped crimson meat up the tax buoyancy from 0.72 (pre-GST) to 1.22 (2018-23), with the states' buoyancy estimated at 1.15, despite compensation ending two years ago. Tax buoyancy measures the swap in tax revenue to swap in nominal GDP."With out GST, states' revenue from subsumed taxes from FY 2018-19 to 2023-24 would have been Rs 37.5 lakh crore.With GST, states' accurate revenue amounted to Rs 46.6 lakh crore," she said in a social media post to coincide with monthly collections for the first time topping the Rs 2 lakh-crore-note in April and the appointment of Justice (retd) Sanjaya Kumar Mishra as first president of GST Appellate Tribunal (GSTAT).Sitharaman said govt has adopted...
