GSTN has said the company will try to ensure that stakeholders become fully familiar with the technology system before the re-rollout of the e-way bill system.
Under the Goods and Services and Tax, which was rolled out from July 1 last year, transporters of goods worth more than Rs 50,000 are required tocarry electronic or e-way bill.
The e-way bill system was launched by GSTN on February 1 after conducting pilot for over a fortnight, but faced technical glitches following which its implementation had to be postponed. GSTN is conducting extended pilot for the e-way bill mechanism and has suggested to states that they should ask their transporters to undertake trial run for e-way bill generation on the portal.
The GST provision requiring transporters to carry an e-way bill when moving goods between states is intended to check tax evasion.
The government is banking on e-way bill mechanism to act as an anti-evasion tool which will help garner more revenues to the exchequer as end use of goods would be monitored.
Transporters, who want to generate e-way bill, can visit the ‘ewaybill.nic.in’ portal and register themselves by giving the GSTIN. Those who are not registered under GST can enrol themselves under e-way bill system by providing their PAN or Aadhaar to generate the e-way bill.
E-way bill will bring uniformity across the states for seamless inter-state movement of goods.