Kohima, Aug 10 (PTI) Nagaland’s tax revenue increased by Rs 170.47 crore to Rs 1,597.51 crore in the 2025-26 fiscal, registering an 11.9 per cent year-on-year growth, officials said on Monday.

The Department of State Taxes, during a review meeting with Governor Nand Kishore Yadav here, said tax collection stood at Rs 1,427.03 crore in 2024-25, up from Rs 1,358.98 crore in the previous fiscal.

Goods and Services Tax (GST) remained the largest component of the state's tax revenue, contributing Rs 1,181.88 crore, or 74 per cent, of the total tax collection in 2025-26, according to an official release.

GST collection during the current financial year stood at Rs 450.35 crore up to July 2026, the department said.

The department, however, flagged manpower shortages, the need for continuous IT infrastructure upgrades and increasing workloads arising from taxpayer registrations and return filings as key challenges.

It also pointed to the growing volume of GST data requiring scrutiny and risk assessment, as well as difficulties in identifying unregistered taxpayers, detecting tax evasion and conducting field verification of high-risk taxpayers.

Under its ‘Vision 2063 and Beyond’, the department has set revenue targets of more than Rs 2,400 crore by 2030, Rs 5,000 crore by 2038, Rs 11,000 crore by 2047 and Rs 50,000 crore by 2063, the release added. PTI NBS RBT