AP surpasses national average in GST collections, says CM
Deccan ChronicleVijayawada: Andhra Pradesh had done better than the national average in GST collections. At a review meeting he held with top officials of the revenue-earning departments at the CM Camp Office in Tadepalli, Jagan Mohan Reddy said AP’s GST collections for the last fiscal totalled Rs 26,360.28 crore by January 2022. Jagan Mohan Reddy explained that the gross GST collections in the state till December 2022 stood at 26.2 per cent as against the national average of 24.8 per cent, surpassing Telangana, Tamil Nadu and Gujarat, in which the GST collections stood at 17.3, 24.9 and 20.2 per cent respectively. He said the GST collections in the state which stood at Rs 26,360.28 crore by end of January 2022 went up to Rs 28,181.86 crore by January 2023, recording a hike of 6.91 per cent. Officials of the transport department told the Chief Minister that they have achieved revenue collection of Rs 3,657.89 crore as against the target of Rs 3,852.93 crore by January the present fiscal.