Taking this amount into account, entire GST compensation for the previous financial year has been released to the states.The total amount of compensation released for the year 2019-20 is Rs. 1,65,302 crore.
The amount of cess collected during the same time was Rs. 95,444 crore. Government utilized the balance of cess amount collected during 2017-18 and 2018-19 in order to release the compensation for 2019-20