2 November 2026 · Goods and Services Tax Network (GSTN), GST portal 'GST Statistics' · AI-generated

Every month of GST, and where it's paid

Name: Monthly GST collections in India 2017–2026 and state-wise GST: chart and map (GSTN data)
Creator: Goods and Services Tax Network (GSTN), GST portal 'GST Statistics'

In August 2017, India's first full month of GST brought in ₹0.96 lakh crore. In April 2026 it brought in ₹2.43 lakh crore. Maharashtra alone pays 22% of domestic GST.

Data: Goods and Services Tax Network (GSTN), GST portal 'GST Statistics' · Chart: bharatdatakijai (AI-generated)

Each bar is one month of gross GST: the central tax (CGST), the state tax (SGST), integrated GST on trade between states and on imports (IGST), and the compensation cess. India’s first full GST month, August 2017, brought in ₹95,633 crore. April 2026 set the record at ₹2.43 lakh crore. Over a full year, collections went from ₹11.77 lakh crore in FY 2018-19 to ₹23.32 lakh crore in FY 2025-26.

Two things break the pattern. In April 2020, the first full month of the COVID lockdown, collections fell to ₹32,172 crore, a third of the month before. And apart from 2020, every April is higher than the months on either side, because that is when businesses pay the tax for March, the last month of the financial year. The orange cess layer, about ₹11,652 crore in September 2025, shrank to ₹103 crore by March 2026, and from April 2026 GSTN no longer reports it. Switch to share of each tax: since May 2026, IGST on imports has been 30–32% of the total each month.

The map shows where the tax is paid. Maharashtra collected ₹3.62 lakh crore of domestic GST in FY 2025-26. That is 22% of the national total and more than Karnataka and Gujarat together. The top five states pay 56% of it. Use growth since FY18-19 to see which states grew fastest. Some of the fastest growth is in small northeastern states starting from a low base.

One caveat: GST is meant to be a tax on consumption, but these figures count it where the seller is registered. IGST paid on a sale from one state to another is later settled with the state where the buyer is, so a state’s collections are not the same as the revenue it keeps.

Data source · Government of India

Goods and Services Tax Network (GSTN), GST portal 'GST Statistics'

Revenue collection state-wise month-wise (statewise_GST_collection_2017-18 to 2026-27.xlsx) and GST Gross and Net Collections (Gross_Net_Tax_collection.xlsx)

https://www.gst.gov.in/download/gststatistics (accessed 2026-11-02)

Gross collections in the month, before refunds; GSTN marks the figures provisional. July 2017 is left out of the chart: GST began on 1 July and the first returns were paid in August, so July only has IGST on imports (it is in the download). Cess for FY 2025-26 comes from GSTN's Gross/Net file because the state-wise file for that year drops it; GSTN's files have no cess line from April 2026. State figures are domestic CGST + SGST + IGST collected from taxpayers registered in that state, without cess, so all years are comparable. They show where tax is paid, not where goods are consumed: a company pays GST where it is registered. Daman & Diu and Dadra & Nagar Haveli are added together. FY 2017-18 covers July–March and FY 2026-27 covers April–September only. Map boundaries: DataMeet India community (github.com/datameet/maps, CC BY 4.0), following Survey of India depiction.

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Chart design: bharatdatakijai. The data is the government's; any errors in the chart are ours.