Haryana records 30% rise in GST

Country liquor in plastic bottles banned

Haryana deputy chief minister Dushyant Chautala on Sunday announced that starting from March 1, 2024, the country liquor would not be sold in plastic bottles in the state. This move makes Haryana the first state in the country to impose such a ban.

Addressing newspersons here, Dushyant, who also holds the portfolio of excise and taxation department, held that the state had recorded a 30% increase in GST collection over the past four years, with the state government already achieving a 16% growth this financial year, resulting in the collection of `32,456 crore as tax. Despite initially setting a target of `36,000 crore for GST collection, he expressed confidence in meeting the target in time.

Stating that in the excise year 2019-2020, the state government received `6,361 crore in excise duty tax. In the previous year – 2023, until July, the excise tax collection reached `9,687 crore, and as of January 28, 2024, it had already reached Rs 9,232 crore, he held that though the target for this excise year was Rs10,500 crore, he was confident that by the completion of the excise year, the state government would receive tax of `11,500 crore, much more than the target.

STAMP DUTY REVENUE

Dushyant further held that in the financial year 2019-20, Rs 6,200 crore was collected from stamp duty, while the government had so far collected about Rs. 10, 000 crore as revenue. Whereas the months of February and March were still left and there would further be significant increase in the revenue. He said even though the government did not raise the stamp duty, there was a rise in revenue.