In a move which will help curb tax evasion, GST authorities have been armed with real-time data of commercial vehicle movement on highways with integration of the e-way bill (EWB) system with FASTag and RFID.
On an average 25 Lakh goods vehicle movements from more than 800 tolls are reported on a daily basis to the e-Way Bill system.
The integration of e-way bill, RFID and FASTag will enable tax officers to undertake live vigilance in respect of e-way bill compliances by businesses and will aid in preventing revenue leakage by real-time identification of cases of recycling of EWBs, non-generation of EWBs.
Based on the RFID information received, the various reports are made available in the MIS System and also on the Officer’s mobile App which will help in live vigilance of such vehicles and check GST evasion, Taxmen can now access reports on vehicles that have passed the selected tolls without e-way bills in the past few minutes, the authority may know the last tolls that have been passed by any vehicle.
The officers can make best use of these reports while conducting vigilance and make the vigilance activity more effective.
Also, the officers of the audit and enforcement wing can use these reports to identify fraudulent transactions like bill trading , recycling of EWBs etc.
How can Officials track vehicles?
Additional features are added to the same application that is currently being used by the officers. The officers have to download the latest apk to get the features.
Currently four features are available namely Vehicles passing through selected toll plazas, direction and time can be tracked in near real time, Information on last 10 times a given vehicle passing through some toll plazas, E Way Bills carried by a vehicle and its passage details at toll plazas for given period of time and EWB, Vehicle details and their passage details for given EWB no.
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