{"id":75604,"date":"2026-05-01T21:31:03","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T21:31:03","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-05-01T21:31:03","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T21:31:03","slug":"andhra-nets-rs-5-542-7-cr-tax-revenue-in-april-highest-ever-monthly-collections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/?p=75604","title":{"rendered":"Andhra nets Rs 5,542.7 cr tax revenue in April, &#8216;highest-ever&#8217; monthly collections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andhra nets Rs 5,542.7 cr tax revenue in April, &#39;highest-ever&#39; monthly collections<BR>GST<BR>Dated:- 1-5-2026<BR>PTI<BR>Amaravati, May 1 (PTI) Andhra Pradesh recorded total tax collections of Rs 5,542.7 crore in April 2026, marking the highest-ever monthly revenue since the introduction of Goods and Services Tax.<\/p>\n<p> Chief Commissioner of State Tax A Babu noted that the strong performance came despite structural challenges arising from GST 2.0 rate rationalisation, which had an estimated annual revenue impact of Rs 8,000 crore.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cApril 2026 recorded total collections of Rs 5,542.70 crore, the highest-ever monthly revenue, reflecting strong administrative efficiency and compliance,\u201d said Babu in an official press release on Friday.<\/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=72618\">Visit the Source <\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n<p>xpayer base.<\/p>\n<p> For the April month trend since GST implementation, the state has maintained consistent year-on-year growth, demonstrating sustained compliance improvements and robust administrative capacity, the release said.<\/p>\n<p> Total collections across all sectors rose significantly, supported by gains in petroleum VAT, professional tax and key service sectors such as real estate and construction, even as GST revenues were partially impacted by rate cuts on select goods.<\/p>\n<p> Key measures supporting revenue growth included AI-driven data analytics, automated scrutiny systems, and targeted compliance drives to detect tax evasion, identify mismatches and prevent ineligible input tax credit claims.<\/p>\n<p> The department also intensified enforc<\/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=72618\">Visit the Source <\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andhra nets Rs 5,542.7 cr tax revenue in April, &#8216;highest-ever&#8217; monthly collectionsGSTDated:- 1-5-2026PTIAmaravati, May 1 (PTI) Andhra Pradesh recorded total tax collections of Rs 5,542.7 crore in April 2026, marking the highest-ever monthly revenue sin&#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-75604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75604","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=75604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}