{"id":75336,"date":"2026-04-01T15:31:04","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T15:31:04","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-04-01T15:31:04","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T15:31:04","slug":"gst-collections-rise-9-pc-to-over-rs-2-lakh-cr-in-march-third-highest-in-fy26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/?p=75336","title":{"rendered":"GST collections rise 9 pc to over Rs 2 lakh cr in March, third highest in FY26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GST collections rise 9 pc to over Rs 2 lakh cr in March, third highest in FY26<BR>GST<BR>Dated:- 1-4-2026<BR>PTI<BR>New Delhi, Apr 1 (PTI) GST revenues grew about 9 per cent in March, scaling to the pre-tax cut level of over Rs 2 lakh crore, the third highest monthly collection in the 2025-26 fiscal, buoyed by mop-ups from imports as well as domestic sales and purchases, government data showed on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p> Gross domestic revenues rose 5.9 per cent to over Rs 1.46 lakh crore, while those from imports grew 17.8 per cent to Rs 53,861 crore during the month.<\/p>\n<p> The gross Goods and Services Tax (GST) mop-up was Rs 1.83 lakh crore in March 2025.<\/p>\n<p> March 2026 saw the third-highest collection in the 2025-26 fiscal (April-March), with April <\/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=72063\">Visit the Source <\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n<p>uary, it was over Rs 1.83 lakh crore.<\/p>\n<p> Refund issuance during March rose 13.8 per cent to Rs 22,074 crore, the latest data showed.<\/p>\n<p> After adjusting refunds, net GST revenues in March stood at about Rs 1.78 lakh crore, up 8.2 per cent year-on-year.<\/p>\n<p> Deloitte India Partner M S Mani said while these collections indicate that the consumption sentiment continues to be strong, it is interesting to see that the 8 per cent plus growth in the gross GST collections has been significantly helped by the very strong collections in the import GST numbers.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;There has been a significant increase in imports, which has contributed to the GST collections on imports; this would also have led to a significant increase in the customs duty collection<\/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=72063\">Visit the Source <\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GST collections rise 9 pc to over Rs 2 lakh cr in March, third highest in FY26GSTDated:- 1-4-2026PTINew Delhi, Apr 1 (PTI) GST revenues grew about 9 per cent in March, scaling to the pre-tax cut level of over Rs 2 lakh crore, the third highest monthly &#8230;<\/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-75336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75336","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=75336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}