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Service tax collection from Mumbai zone rose by 28.5 per cent to ₹5,757 crore in April as against ₹ 4,480 crore in the same month last year, a senior official said today.
Mumbai zone accounts for over one-third of the total service tax collected in the country.
“Net service tax collection from Mumbai zone in April went up by 28.5 per cent to ₹ 5,757 crore from ₹ 4,480 crore in the year-ago period,” Chief Service Tax Commissioner and head of Mumbai zone, Piyusha Patnaik, told PTI here.
“Gross service tax collection from Mumbai zone in April stood at ₹ 5,824 crore from ₹ 4,621 crore in the year-ago period. Again, we paid a refund to the tune of ₹ 67 crore in April from ₹ 141 crore in the year-ago period,” he added.
The Mumbai zone collected ₹ 68,714 crore in 2015-16 from ₹ 55,717 crore in the previous fiscal, showing a growth of 23.3 per cent. Still, it missed the service tax collection target of ₹ 69,600 crore for 2015-16 marginally by around ₹ 800 crore.
For the entire country, service tax collections in April rose 28 per cent to ₹ 18,647 crore as compared to ₹ 14,585 crore in the year-ago period.
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