Addressing the GST revenue woes

Goods and Services Tax collections exceeded Rs 1 lakh crore for the second straight month in December 2019. It has given relief to the government, which was struggling with a shortfall in GST collections in the current fiscal year. When GST was first introduced in July 2017, it was expected that monthly GST collections would exceed Rs 1 lakh crore; we find that out of 30 months, so far only in nin…