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Finance Ministry pulls up officers of I-T department for poor GST mop-up

GST receipts for the month of May have slipped to Rs 940 billion against a target of Rs 1 trillion set for each month of 2018-19

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Subhomoy Bhattacharjee New Delhi

Last Updated : Jun 08 2018 | 1:35 AM IST

The finance ministry has pulled up officers of the indirect tax department for their supposedly inadequate performance in collecting the goods and services tax (GST), which is shortly going to complete a year.

It has also described as a “mystery” as to how officers, especially in Tamil Nadu and a few other states, have given more refund than the tax collected for April 2018.

The assessment comes hot on the heels of the report card on GST collections released by the finance ministry this week.

GST receipts for the month of May have slipped to Rs 940 billion against a

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