Odisha Gets Rs 524 Crore GST Compensation From Centre

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OB Bureau

Bhubaneswar: Odisha has received Rs 524 crore as the balance GST compensation from the Central government for the period April to June in the current financial year.

The Centre has released an amount of Rs 17,000 crore to states and union territories towards the balance GST compensation for April to June, 2022. The total amount of compensation released to the states/UTs so far during 2022-23 is Rs1,15,662 crore, an official release said on Friday.

Maharashtra received the highest Rs 2,081 crore followed by Karnataka (Rs 1,915 crore), Uttar Pradesh (Rs 1,202 crore), Delhi (Rs 1,200 crore) and Tamil Nadu (Rs 1,188 crore.)

This is despite the fact that total Cess collection till October, 2022 is only Rs.72,147 crore and the balance of Rs. 43,515 crore is being released by the Centre from its own resources, it said.

With this release, Centre has released, in advance, the entire amount of Cess estimated to be collected this year till March-end available for payment of compensation to states. This decision was taken to assist the states in managing their resources and ensuring that their programmes especially the expenditure on capital is carried out successfully during the financial year.

Even in May this year, the Central government had released Rs. 86,912 crore as provisional GST compensation to states for the period Feb-May’2022 despite the fact that there was only about Rs.25,000 crore in the GST Compensation Fund, by making arrangement of funds of around Rs.62,000 crore from from its own resources, it added.

OB Bureau

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