While Centre plans large hike in exemption limit, real need is to start invoice-matching to improve compliance

With GST collections falling for the second month in a row after crossing `1 lakh crore in September, and monthly collections now at `96,783 crore for April-December—that’s 11% lower than the budget target of `1.1 lakh crore per month in FY19—it is clear there will be a big slippage in GST collections, by around `80,000-100,000 crore assuming a reasonable step-up in revenues over the next three mo…