CONTINUING TO post a year-on-year increase for the second month in a row, gross Goods and Services Tax (GST) collections rose 10.2 per cent to an eight-month high of Rs 1.05 lakh crore in October, for sales in September.
An uptick in economic activity with the easing of Covid restrictions, along with a low base effect and a September 30 deadline for claiming input tax credit and reconciliation for businesses for 2019-20, were the key factors for the rise in revenues under…