Mumbai zone service tax collection up 28% to Rs 5,757cr in Apr

Service tax collection from Mumbai zone rose by 28.5 per cent to Rs 5,757 crore in April as against Rs 4,480 crore in the same month last year, a senior official said today.
Mumbai zone accounts for over one-third of the total service tax collected in the country.
"Net service tax collection from Mumbai zone in April went up by 28.5 per cent to Rs 5,757 crore from Rs 4,480 crore in the year-ago period," Chief Service Tax Commissioner and head of Mumbai zone, Piyusha Patnaik, told PTI here.
"Gross service tax collection from Mumbai zone in April stood at Rs 5,824 crore from Rs 4,621 crore in the year-ago period. Again, we paid a refund to the tune of Rs 67 crore in April from Rs 141 crore in the year-ago period," he added.

The Mumbai zone collected Rs 68,714 crore in 2015-16 from Rs 55,717 crore in the previous fiscal, showing a growth of 23.3 per cent. Still, it missed the service tax collection target of Rs 69,600 crore for 2015-16 marginally by around Rs 800 crore.
For the entire country, service tax collections in April rose 28 per cent to Rs 18,647 crore as compared to Rs 14,585 crore in the year-ago period.