Jaipur, May 01, 2025.
The government collected 2.37 lakh crore rupees from Goods and Services Tax (GST) in April 2025. There was a 12.6% increase on an annual basis. This is the highest GST collection so far.
Earlier, the record for the highest GST collection was set in April 2024. At that time, the government collected 2.10 lakh crore rupees from GST. On Thursday, May 1, the government released the GST figures.
The government implemented GST across the country on July 1, 2017. After this, 17 taxes and 13 cesses of the central and state governments were removed. On the completion of 7 years of GST, the Ministry of Finance posted about the achievements made during the past seven years.
GST is an indirect tax. It was implemented in 2017 to replace a variety of previous indirect taxes (VAT), service tax, purchase tax, excise duty, and many indirect taxes. GST has four slabs of 5, 12, 18, and 28%.
