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Subhash Chandra Garg cherry-picking figures from two different bases: CBIC

Garg, who has been at the centre of the recent controversy over the government's GDP growth estimates, had questioned the Centre's claim of 14.8% growth in gross GST collections in August and 11% growth in the first five months. In a social-media post, with an attached article, he argued that the headline numbers present an overly favourable picture of revenue performance because compensation cess collected in the year-earlier period was excluded from the comparison.

10 Sep 2026 12:55 am