{"id":75603,"date":"2026-05-01T20:46:04","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T20:46:04","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-05-01T20:46:04","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T20:46:04","slug":"punjab-records-highest-ever-gst-collection-of-rs-2-987-4-cr-in-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/?p=75603","title":{"rendered":"Punjab records highest-ever GST collection of Rs 2,987.4 cr in April"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Punjab records highest-ever GST collection of Rs 2,987.4 cr in April<BR>GST<BR>Dated:- 1-5-2026<BR>PTI<BR>Chandigarh, May 1 (PTI) The Punjab government has set a benchmark in tax revenue with the highest-ever monthly collection of Goods and Services Tax (GST) at 2,987.38 crore in April, Finance Minister Harpal Singh Cheema said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;The state has recorded a gross GST collection of Rs 2,987.38 crore alongside a net GST collection of Rs 2,725.08 crore. This exceptional performance reflects a remarkable year-on-year net GST growth of 70.70 per cent, translating to an impressive increase of approximately Rs 1,129 crore over our collections in April 2025,&#8221; the minister for finance, planning, excise and taxation said.<\/p>\n<p> Elaborating o<\/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=72617\">Visit the Source <\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n<p>c improvements in core tax administration and compliance,&#8221; he said, according to an official statement.<\/p>\n<p> Attributing this financial milestone to rigorous administrative measures, the minister said, &#8220;Our robust GST growth is directly supported by intensified enforcement activities across Punjab. Through the extensive leverage of data analytics, coordinated field action, and intelligence-based inspections, we have successfully imposed penalties exceeding Rs 175 crore.<\/p>\n<p> He further said that during a special anti-evasion operation in the iron and steel sector this April, the state executed a record enforcement drive by detaining nearly 200 vehicles in a single day.<\/p>\n<p> Reiterating Chief Minister Bhagwant Singh Mann-led Punjab government&#39;s<\/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=72617\">Visit the Source <\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Punjab records highest-ever GST collection of Rs 2,987.4 cr in AprilGSTDated:- 1-5-2026PTIChandigarh, May 1 (PTI) The Punjab government has set a benchmark in tax revenue with the highest-ever monthly collection of Goods and Services Tax (GST) at 2,987&#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-75603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75603","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=75603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}