GST compliance may rise, November sees 73% taxpayers filing returns

The increasing immediate compliance is not translating into improved tax collection, and, on the contrary, revenue shortfall under the GST is aggravating

Only 71.25 per cent of companies registered under the goods and services tax (GST) filed monthly returns for November 2018, while the number was 80 per cent for July 2018, 87.4 per cent for January 2018, and 92.6 per cent for August 2017, showing a decline in compliance over months. 

This is according to the data presented by the finance ministry in Parliament.

Here compliance has been defined as the GSTR-3B (summary input output) returns for a month filed as a percentage of eligible GST taxpayers.  

Better and comparable data across months, however, shows that immediate monthly compliance under the GST is improving