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Eight North Eastern States Have Registered Compounded Annual GST Hike Of 27.5 Per Cent: Nirmala Sitharaman

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said all land Customs stations in northeast to go electronic by December

Union Minister for Finance and Corporate Affairs Nirmala Sitharaman, who was in Guwahati on Friday, said that the North Eastern states have scripted a success story in the collection and devolution of the Goods and Services Tax (GST), Union Minister for Finance and Corporate Affairs Nirmala Sitharaman said here on Friday.

According to the 2023 RBI report on state finances, the eight NE states have registered a compounded annual GST hike of 27.5 per cent, the minister said. Sitharaman was speaking at the Investiture Ceremony for conferring the Presidential Award for ‘Specially Distinguished Record of Service’ to officers and employees of the Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) in Guwahati.

In her address, Sitharaman, who was on a two-day visit to Assam and Tripura, said Assam was the first state to ratify the GST Act, four days after it was passed and since then there has been a 12 times increase in the collection of taxes. Assam's sales tax collection prior to the implementation of the GST was Rs 558.26 crore but this has increased manifold to Rs 7,097 crore. "GST has brought about a significant improvement in the system which has not only benefited the states but ultimately the people as well," Sitharaman said.

Sikkim and Meghalaya too have registered a significant achievement with the former's collection increasing from Rs 263.5 crore to Rs 3,036 crore and the latter's from Rs 587.21 crore to Rs 2,078 crore, she said.

The North East has borders with four countries and there are 25 functional Land Customs Stations (LCS), out of which only 15 have electronic facilities. All land Customs stations in northeast to go electronic by December, she said. Sitharaman urged the officials to ensure that by December, the remaining LCSs also have electronic facilities which will help detect and stop smuggling.

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