GST is the closest thing India has to a monthly pulse-check on its economy. It is the country's single largest source of indirect-tax revenue, and because almost every sale in the formal economy passes through it, the monthly collection moves with consumption, trade and the steady pull of businesses into the tax net — landing weeks ahead of GDP and most official growth data.
A strong month means households and firms are spending. The split between home trade and imports shows whether that demand is domestic or leaning on foreign goods, and the state-wise view reveals where the growth is actually happening. Tracking it month by month is how you read the economy in near-real time.
This tool lets you do exactly that: switch between gross, domestic and import GST, smooth the seasonality with the 12-month run-rate, zoom into any stretch, compare any two months or periods, or break the country down state by state. Every figure is from the government's own monthly releases.
A big change from 22 September 2025: GST was rationalised. The old four-slab structure — 5%, 12%, 18% and 28% — was collapsed into essentially two rates: a 5% merit rate and an 18% standard rate, plus a special 40% de-merit rate on a small set of sin and luxury goods (pan masala, tobacco, high-end cars). Most items in the 12% slab moved down to 5% and most in the 28% slab down to 18%; everyday goods like hair oil, soap, toothpaste, TVs, air-conditioners and small cars got cheaper, while several foods and 33 life-saving medicines went to 0%. Decided at the 56th GST Council on 3 September 2025, this was the biggest overhaul since GST launched — so collections from late 2025 onward sit on a lower rate base, worth keeping in mind when reading the trend across that line.
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politypolicy.com · by Tushar Gupta
GST Collections
India’s monthly Goods & Services Tax revenue — a real-time pulse-check on consumption, trade and the widening tax net.
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This is one of a growing set of trackers.
High-frequency reads on the economy — inflation, trade, credit, payments, the rupee, power and more — each built from primary data and updated as it lands.