{"id":76073,"date":"2026-07-01T18:31:05","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T18:31:05","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-07-01T18:31:05","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T18:31:05","slug":"punjab-s-gst-collection-rises-nearly-25-pc-in-april-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/?p=76073","title":{"rendered":"Punjab&#8217;s GST collection rises nearly 25 pc in April-June"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Punjab&#39;s GST collection rises nearly 25 pc in April-June<BR>GST<BR>Dated:- 1-7-2026<BR>PTI<BR>Chandigarh, Jul 1 (PTI) The Goods and Services Tax (GST) collection in Punjab recorded a 24.45 per cent jump at Rs 7,833.45 crore during the first three months of FY27, aided by improved compliance and sustained economic activity, the state&#39;s finance minister Harpal Singh Cheema said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p> Punjab collected Rs 7,833.45 crore in gross GST during the April-June quarter of FY 2026-27, compared with Rs 6,294.57 crore in the corresponding period last year, the minister for finance, excise and taxation said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p> The increase of Rs 1,538.88 crore reflected the state&#39;s improving revenue position with better tax compliance, sustain<\/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=73617\">Visit the Source <\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n<p>vernment&#39;s action against tax evasion, the minister said the Excise and Taxation Department recovered around Rs 633 crore through penalties during the quarter, registering a 207 per cent increase over the Rs 207 crore recovered in the same period of the previous financial year.<\/p>\n<p> In June alone, penalties worth Rs 225 crore were imposed, and 20 FIRs were registered against alleged bogus taxpayers involved in fake invoicing and fraudulent registrations, the minister said.<\/p>\n<p> Cheema also said that the department recovered around Rs 14 crore in long-pending VAT dues through property auction proceedings conducted during June.<\/p>\n<p> Besides, the state recorded an increase of Rs 242 crore in VAT\/CST collections, indicating improvement in overall <\/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=73617\">Visit the Source <\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Punjab&#8217;s GST collection rises nearly 25 pc in April-JuneGSTDated:- 1-7-2026PTIChandigarh, Jul 1 (PTI) The Goods and Services Tax (GST) collection in Punjab recorded a 24.45 per cent jump at Rs 7,833.45 crore during the first three months of FY27, aided&#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-76073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76073","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=76073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}