The national e-way bill system that came into force across the country on February 1 to ensure free movement of goods through out the country had to be put on hold few hours later because of some glitches in generation of bills.
Telangana, which developed its own e-way bill system and is implementing it since August 16, 2017, shifted to the common e-way bill generated by the NIC from February 1.
But it reverted back to its own system as the problems in the national e-way bill are yet to be resolved.
“We have been waiting for the problems in the common e-way system to be fixed and our officers went to Delhi trying to make some changes in our own e-way bill system. The technical issues still persist but the State can’t wait any longer as it will affect the revenue collection. Some other States have too started using their own e-way bill system,” said a senior official.
About 13 States, including Telangana, are implementing e-way bills under the GST regime in the absence of check posts, and truck drivers carry them to be shown to the mobile inspection teams during random checks.
In the present system where States have their own e-way bill system, traders and manufacturers in other States supplying their good to Telangana, will have to generate e-way bills from our system. Similarly Telangana traders and manufacturers supplying their goods to other States, will have to generate e-way bills from the respective State’s portal. So a common national e-way bill will be comfortable for transport of goods worth more than ₹50,000 from State to State across the country without having to generate separate e-way bill for each State.
The common system will also facilitate creation of data base about movement of goods within the State, State-to-State and help in the analysis of season-wise movement of goods etc. It also matches the invoices uploaded in the system with the e-way bills to curb tax evasion, sources said. Once the glitches are addressed in the national e-way bill generation, then all States will adopt that system.
The tax collection under the GST has been improving steadily and January turned out to be the best month so far with a revenue of ₹1,656.14 crore with the highest State GST revenue of ₹855.38 crore and IGST of 800.76 crore since introduction of new tax regime from July 1, 2017.
In August 2017, first month after GST was introduced in July, the tax collection was only ₹1,258.79 crore. The trend is continuing in February too and the State is hopeful of closing the current financial year with a revenue growth of about 17 to 18%, sources said.
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