NEW DELHI, October 6 — Gross Goods and Services Tax (GST) revenue collections in September 2026 rose 9.1 percent year-on-year to ₹1,89,240 crore, driven by robust domestic trade, expanding festive dispatch volumes, and streamlined electronic invoicing compliance across intermediate and consumer goods, according to revenue receipts released by the Ministry of Finance on Tuesday.
The revenue breakdown comprises Central GST (CGST) of ₹34,850 crore, State GST (SGST) of ₹42,720 crore, Integrated GST (IGST) of ₹96,150 crore (inclusive of ₹47,400 crore collected on cross-border merchandise importations), and statutory Cess receipts amounting to ₹15,520 crore. As part of regular inter-governmental settlements, the Centre settled ₹38,400 crore to CGST and ₹32,100 crore to SGST from collected IGST balances, yielding total net post-settlement revenues of ₹73,250 crore for the Centre and ₹74,820 crore for the States.
Revenue department officials noted that revenues from domestic transactions grew at a faster pace of 10.4 percent year-on-year, buoyed by all-time high monthly generation of over 108 million inter-state e-way bills. The steady trajectory maintains India's average monthly gross GST mop-up at ₹1.86 lakh crore for the ongoing fiscal year, providing vital fiscal buffers to sustain public capital expenditure while adhering to the budgeted fiscal deficit target of 4.9 percent of GDP.
The constitutional design of the Goods and Services Tax Council under Article 279A, indirect tax federalism, revenue assignment mechanics, and input tax credit architectures represent recurring topics in UPSC Civil Services (GS-II: Governance & GS-III: Public Finance), RBI Grade B, and state commercial tax evaluations. Candidates should recall that GST was enacted via the 101st Constitutional Amendment Act, 2016, coming into statutory force on July 1, 2017, subsuming 17 central and state indirect levies into a unified destination-based consumption tax.