Centre upbeat on Rs 1.5-trillion GST revenue every month from October

GST collections were to the tune of Rs 1.43 trillion in August; in July it was around 1.49 trillion

Government officials are bullish that the Central Board of Indirect Taxes & Customs (CBIC) will be able to garner goods and services tax (GST) revenues of over Rs 1.5 trillion every month from October onwards. This comes at a time when GST collections have been falling behind the Rs 1.5-trillion mark for the last four months.

“For the last couple of months, we have been trying very hard to reach that milestone of Rs 1.5 trillion. But we have been failing a bit sometimes by Rs 2,000 crore or Rs 6,000 crore. The revenues that we will collect in October