Himachal Dec GST at Rs 342 crore

Shimla : The Himachal Pradesh Excise and Taxation department has collected Rs 342 crores under GST in the month of December. The GST collections in the current financial year upto December, 2021 stands at Rs 3157.26 crores vis-a-vis Rs 2370.45 crores during the same period of the last financial year which is 33 percent more than the last financial year.

A spokesman said a number of initiatives of the department include capacity building of tax officers, nudging non-filers after last date of filing of returns, performance monitoring of field functionaries, verification of e-way bills and input tax credit are some of the factors which have led to the improvement in collections.

Thenexcise and taxation department plans to organise tax haat programs in the near future to further improve the performance by way of voluntary compliance.