Chandigarh, Feb. 18 -- Punjab finance minister Harpal Singh Cheema on Tuesday said the excise and taxation department has conducted targeted GST registration drives to broaden the GST tax base, resulting in the addition of 46,338 new taxpayers in 2023-24 and approximately 33,000 new taxpayers up to December 2024.

He said that a statewide campaign has also been launched to educate taxpayers on filing procedures, ITC claims, and compliance benefits.

Revealing this in a press communique issued here, the minister said that the state GST department initiated another GSTR registration drive in January, visiting approximately 48,000 new dealers and successfully registering around 10,500 eligible dealers across Punjab.

Highlighting the initiat...