{"id":73910,"date":"2025-10-02T20:46:03","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T15:16:03","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-10-02T20:46:03","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T15:16:03","slug":"punjab-records-22-pc-growth-in-gst-collection-in-first-half-of-fy26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/?p=73910","title":{"rendered":"Punjab records 22 pc growth in GST collection in first half of FY26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Punjab records 22 pc growth in GST collection in first half of FY26<BR>GST<BR>Dated:- 2-10-2025<BR>PTI<BR>Chandigarh, Oct 2 (PTI) Punjab has registered a 22.35 per cent rise in Goods and Services Tax (GST) collection to Rs 13,971 crore during April-September this fiscal year, the state&#39;s Finance Minister Harpal Singh Cheema said on Thursday.<br \/>\nThe state had collected Rs 11,418 crore in GST a year ago.<br \/>\nIn a statement, Cheema said over the first six months of this financial year, the state has recorded a gross GST revenue growth of Rs 2,553 crore compared to the corresponding period last year.<br \/>\nHe said the state&#39;s year-on-year GST growth rate has risen from just 5 per cent in the first half of 2024-25 to an impressive 22.35 per cent in 2025-2<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Plain text (Extract) only<\/strong><BR>For full text:-<a href=\"https:\/\/www.taxtmi.com\/news?id=57644\">Visit the Source <\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n<p>ing an increase of Rs 197.82 crore and a growth rate of 10 per cent,&#8221; he added.<br \/>\nThe excise and taxation minister said his department significantly intensified its enforcement actions against tax evasion from April to September 2025.<br \/>\nDuring this period, Rs 246 crore of ineligible Input Tax Credit (ITC) was blocked for 1,162 taxpayers.<br \/>\nFurthermore, four major FIRs were lodged against fraudulent networks, including scams of Rs 500 crore in Ludhiana and Rs 550 crore in Fatehgarh Sahib.<br \/>\n&#8220;Penalty collections from road checking and inspections by the State Intelligence and Preventive Units (SIPUs) surged sharply, rising from Rs 106.36 crore in April-September 2024 to Rs 355.72 crore in April-September 2025,&#8221; said the minister.<br \/>\n&#8220;This increase <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Plain text (Extract) only<\/strong><BR>For full text:-<a href=\"https:\/\/www.taxtmi.com\/news?id=57644\">Visit the Source <\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Punjab records 22 pc growth in GST collection in first half of FY26GSTDated:- 2-10-2025PTIChandigarh, Oct 2 (PTI) Punjab has registered a 22.35 per cent rise in Goods and Services Tax (GST) collection to Rs 13,971 crore during April-September this fiscal <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}