As the Government is all set to implement electronic way Bill under the Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime from 1st February 2018 onwards, it understood that the traders can start using the e-way bill mechanism from 16th January onwards on a voluntary basis.
Reportedly, the Government may give an opportunity to check the efficiency of the new mechanism from this month onwards.
Under the E-way Bill provisions, both the inter-State and intra-State movement of goods above Rs 50,000 is required to be pre-registered online. Earlier, when a few days were left for the GST rollout, the Central Government had decided to postpone the implementation of the provision since it was not sure about the technological backbone.
#GST: Attention trade and transporters, e-way bill to become mandatory for inter-State movement of goods from ?️1st February 2018 pic.twitter.com/gK6sxyaka7
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Last month, the Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council has through video conferencing decided to implement E-way bill from 1st February 2017. After the meeting, the Council has said that till such time as the National e-way Bill is ready, the States were authorized to continue their own separate e-way Bill systems. However, it was represented by the trade and transporters that this is causing undue hardship in the Inter-State movement of goods and therefore, bringing in an early all India system of e-way Bill has become a necessity.
The e-way bill for inter-state movements will be implemented from February 1 and for intra-state movement from June 1.
