{"id":76587,"date":"2026-09-09T21:16:03","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T21:16:03","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-09-09T21:16:03","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T21:16:03","slug":"cbic-terms-gst-revenue-comparison-using-compensation-cess-misleading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/?p=76587","title":{"rendered":"CBIC terms GST revenue comparison using compensation cess &#8216;misleading&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CBIC terms GST revenue comparison using compensation cess &#39;misleading&#39;<BR>GST<BR>Dated:- 9-9-2026<BR>PTI<BR>New Delhi, Sep 9 (PTI) The CBIC on Wednesday said monthly GST revenue growth figures are calculated on a comparable tax base and described cherry-picking of figures by including the erstwhile compensation cess as &#8220;misleading and mischievous&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>In a reply to former finance secretary Subhash Chandra Garg&#39;s post on X, the Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) said the GST revenue figures published monthly reflect the correct picture of GST revenue performance, with full disclosure, and the purpose of a growth figure is to show how the tax base has changed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A growth rate is meaningful only when it is computed on a compa<\/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=74712\">Visit the Source <\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n<p>ike with like, instead of misleading our citizens by comparing two fundamentally different data-sets,&#8221; CBIC said.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, the GST Council decided to discontinue the compensation cess effective from September 22, 2025, on all items except tobacco and related products.<\/p>\n<p>The cess levy on tobacco and related products was also removed from February 1, 2026. Accordingly, for the above period, there is no cess collection.<\/p>\n<p>From November 2025 (first tax period post GST rate rationalisation), GST revenue figures are published showing compensation cess separately in the table, and year-on-year growth was computed on the tax base consisting of Central GST, State GST and Integrated GST for the corresponding periods. PTI JD  BAL BAL<\/p>\n<p>=======<\/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=74712\">Visit the Source <\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CBIC terms GST revenue comparison using compensation cess &#8216;misleading&#8217;GSTDated:- 9-9-2026PTINew Delhi, Sep 9 (PTI) The CBIC on Wednesday said monthly GST revenue growth figures are calculated on a comparable tax base and described cherry-picking of fig&#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-76587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76587","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=76587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}