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Uttar Pradesh’s GST collections for Oct go up

GST collections went down marginally in September and the state government had asserted that the earnings were nowhere a reflection on the reforms

Published on: Nov 5, 2025, 03:12:17 IST
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The Uttar Pradesh government on Tuesday claimed an increase in its Goods and Services Tax (GST) collections following the Next Gen GST reforms with the state government getting a revenue of 6,799.27 crore in October 2025 (2025-2026) from the GST which is marginally up from the earnings of 6,830.96 crore made under the same head in the corresponding month in 2024-2025.

Yes, we have earned more GST despite easing of the tax slabs, said UP finance minister Suresh Khanna. (For Representation)
Yes, we have earned more GST despite easing of the tax slabs, said UP finance minister Suresh Khanna. (For Representation)

An increase of 31.69 crore in the GST collections in the month assumes significance as it comes following the implementation of the Next Gen GST reforms that came into effect on September 22, 2025. The GST collections went down marginally in September 2025 and the state government had asserted that the earnings were nowhere a reflection on the reforms.

“Yes, we have earned more GST despite easing of the tax slabs following the Next Gen GST reforms. An increase in the GST collections is significant and we congratulate the taxpayers for doing so,” said Uttar Pradesh minister for finance Suresh Khanna here while sharing details of the state government’s revenue earnings.

Its total revenue collection (taxes and non-tax) in October 2025 also went up by 636.06 crore to 17,747.06 crore from 17,111.00 crore earned in the same month in 2024-2025. Its earnings from the state taxes (GST and VAT) were 9,232.78 crore in October 2025 this was about 66.4 percent of the target of 13,906.20 crore for the same month.

Meanwhile, the state government collected a tax revenue of 1,22,761.33 crore in the first eight months of 2025-2026 (April 1 to October 31, 2025) and this is about 74.4 percent of the target for the same period of 1,64,977 crore. The state government’s collections are, however, 41.6% of the annual target.

The state government collected a non-tax revenue of 7,639.55 crore in the first eight months of 2025-2026 and this is about 56.2% of the target for the period of 13,584.98 crore. Its non-tax revenue collections in the first eight months are, however, only 31.1% of the target.

 
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Umesh Raghuvanshi

Umesh Raghuvanshi is an award-winning journalist with nearly four decades of demonstrated experience in the profession. He is the author of Ayodhya: The Gods Are Liberated. He is skilled in storytelling and newswriting, and writes on politics, governance, legislature, finance, environment, and social issues. He is based in Lucknow, is well-travelled, and has covered several national and international events, as well as all assembly and parliament elections in Uttar Pradesh since 1984. He has been a visiting scholar at the Graduate School of Journalism, University of California, Berkeley, USA, and a Metcalf Fellow at the Metcalf Institute of Marine and Environmental Reporting, University of Rhode Island, USA. He is a science graduate from DBS College, Dehradun, and holds an MA in Political Science from DAV (PG) College, Dehradun. He won the KC Kulish International Merit Award for excellence in journalism (2015) and received it in New Delhi in 2017. He also won a competition organised by the United Nations Environment Programme DTIE OzonAction Programme in 2009 that assessed coverage of the interlinkages between ozone and climate change. He was awarded in Beijing, China, in 2010. He started his career with a Dehradun-based English daily in the early 1980s and later worked with The Pioneer too.

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