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Indirect tax collection for FY24 exceeds RE by handsome margin: CBIC chief

The indirect tax collection for FY24 has exceeded the revised estimates (RE) of Rs 14.84 lakh crore by “a handsome margin”, helped by a record GST mop-up, a top government official said. Lauding the efforts of tax officials, CBIC chairman Sanjay Kumar Agarwal, in a letter to field officials, said, “I am happy to inform that the indirect tax collections for the Financial Year 2023-24, including Customs and Union Excise Duty have exceeded the Revised Estimates by a handsome margin”.