GST implementation was uneven, but we can see the benefits: Raghuram Rajan

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Economist, former RBI Governor and Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago, Raghuram Rajan, lauded the government for the Goods and Services Tax (GST) and Unified Payments Interface (UPI)..

Speaking at a podcast hosted by Akash Banerjee, on his YouTube channel The Deshbhakt, Rajan talking about certain landmark implementations, picked UPI and GST...

Since then, the GST revenue collection for November 2023 has increased to nearly Rs 1.68 lakh crore, which is a 15% jump on an annual basis, crossing the Rs 1.6 lakh crore mark for the sixth time in FY24..

Out of that, CGST was Rs 30,420 crore, SGST was Rs 38,226 crore, IGST was Rs 87,009 crore (including Rs 39,198 crore collected on import of goods) and cess was Rs 12,274 crore (including Rs 1,036 crore collected on import of goods)...

Moreover, the Finance Ministry is anticipating average monthly GST revenue collections for the upcoming fiscal 2024-25 to surpass Rs 1.7 lakh crore, on the back of a strong economy and increasingly better compliance...

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