During year 2018-19, by contributing Rs 1.70 lakh crore revenue Maharashtra tops in GST contribution.
It is 15% of total Goods and Service Tax (GST) collection of all India in the year 2018-19. Maharashtra’s contribution has been registered as the highest GST collections among all states of India.
While highlighting the growth of Maharashtra, Finance minister Sudhir Mungantiwar, said
- The growth of Maharashtra among all states of India is highest that has positively resulted in high revenue earning and continues to be high.
- We have contributed 8% higher than the last year’s GST contribution. It again establishes that Maharashtra is the growth engine of India,”.
- Besides GST contributions, the per capita income in Maharashtra is also high.
- The businessmen are getting the duel benefit in this GST system. They are getting the rebate as we as cut on the charges on GST. Besides, consumers are also getting the goods on a reasonable amount. This is the healthy sign of our economy.
He further said that we have solved the problems being faced by taxpayers and now GST returns submissions is very easy and simple for taxpayers.
We have removed all complicated windows from the GST return filing system to enable filing returns on time and the GST system have been settled for now.
PM Narendra Modi has decided to convert India’s economy into a 5 trillion dollars economy. “The net of taxpayers number has been also increased from 7.79 lakh taxpayers to 15.34 lakh taxpayers this year”.
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