The GST revenue collection has crossed one lakh crore rupees in May this year, which is a growth of 6.67 per cent over the revenue collected in the same month last year.

The GST collected during last month was one lakh 289 crore rupees as compared to over 94 thousand crore rupees in the same period of last year.

Finance Ministry in a statement said, a total of 72.45 lakh GSTR-3B returns were filed in the month of May.

An amount of 18,934 crore rupees has also been released to the states as GST compensation for the months of February-March, 2019.