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GST Collection In October Rises 4.6% To Rs 1.95 Lakh Crore; Details Here
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India’s goods and services tax (GST) collections in October 2025 rise 4.6% to Rs 1,95,936 crore, compared with Rs 1,87,346 crore in September.
GST Collections In October 2025.
GST Collection October 2025: India’s goods and services tax (GST) collections in October 2025 rose 4.6% to Rs 1,95,936 crore, compared with Rs 1,87,346 crore in September, according to the latest official data.
The gross domestic revenue in October 2025 grew 2.0 per cent to Rs 1.45 lakh crore, while tax from imports rose 12.84 per cent to Rs 50,884 crore. GST refunds were up by 39.6 per cent year-on-year to Rs 26,934 crore.
Net GST revenue stood at Rs 1.69 lakh crore in August 2025, recording 0.6 per cent year-on-year growth.
For the April-October 2025 period, GST revenues totalled Rs 13.89 lakh crore, marking a 9.0% increase from Rs 12.74 lakh crore collected during the same period last year.
Abhishek Jain, Indirect Tax Head & Partner, KPMG said, “The higher gross GST collections reflect a strong festive season, higher demand and a rate structure that has been well absorbed by businesses. It is a positive indicator of how both consumption and compliance are moving in the right direction.”
Mahesh Jaising, Partner & Indirect Tax Leader, Deloitte India, said, “With GST rate rationalisation bringing in the GST utsav dhamaka, with significant GST rate cuts, India’s GST collections for October 2025 surged to a robust ₹1.96 lakh crore, reflecting a 4.6% year-on-year growth and underscoring the resilience of our economy amid festive momentum & enhanced compliance.”
This fiscal strength arms the Government with the bold resolve to drive GST 2.0 reforms, streamlining rates, curbing evasion and simplifying compliance, propelling India toward a truly seamless, tech-driven tax ecosystem, he added.
New GST Reforms
The GST Council in September rationalised the indirect tax structure, reducing the four-rate slab system to two slabs, addressing a long-standing demand from the Indian middle class.
Items previously taxed at 12% and 28% will now largely shift to the remaining 5% and 18% slabs, making a broad range of products more affordable and, policymakers hope, stimulating consumption at a time when the economy seeks fresh momentum.
The GST rate changes applied to all goods except pan masala, gutkha, cigarettes, chewing tobacco products such as zarda, unmanufactured tobacco, and bidi, and will take effect from September 22, 2025.
(Details will be updated soon)
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Haris is Deputy News Editor (Business) at news18.com. He writes on various issues related to personal finance, markets, economy and companies. Having over a decade of experience in financial journalism, Haris h… Read More
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