India's goods, services tax receipts rise 12pc

NEW DELHI, July 01 (Reuters): India's goods and services tax (GST) collections rose nearly 12 per cent year-on-year to 1.61 trillion rupees ($19.61 billion) in June, a government statement showed on Saturday.
The government collected 1.45 trillion rupees as GST in June 2022 and a record 1.87 trillion rupees in April 2023.
It expects to garner 9.56 trillion rupees through GST in the current fiscal year that ends in March 2024.
The western state of Maharashtra clocked a 17 per cent year-on-year growth in tax receipts to 260.99 billion rupees in June - the highest for any state - while the southern states of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu recorded increases of 27 per cent and 20 per cent, respectively.
The monthly GST collected has topped the 1.5 trillion rupees-mark for the seventh time since the new tax regime was introduced in 2017.
India's nominal growth is estimated to be 10.5 per cent in the current fiscal year.
Meanwhile, India's infrastructure output expanded 4.3 per cent year-on-year in May, its highest since February, driven by a surge in cement, steel and fertiliser output, government data showed on Friday. Five out of the eight sectors posted year-on-year output growth in May, according to the data.
The country's infrastructure output last grew at a faster pace in February, when it increased 7.4 per cent year-on-year, revised data on Friday showed.
Infrastructure output - which comprises eight sectors, including coal and electricity, accounting for nearly 40 per cent of industrial output - also rose 4.3 per cent year-on-year in the first two months of the financial year.