Thank you, Shri Piyush Goyalji – Shri Nitin Gadkariji,
For implementing my 4 year old suggestion, which has
the following potential :
Ø To
bring down our LOGISTICS COST from current 14 % to less than 10 % of GST
Ø To reduce
truck travel-time, on our highways, by 50 % of current time
Ø To
end CORRUPTION by ending INSPECTION RAJ along our highways
Ø As
against current 25 lakh trucks plying daily on our highways, raise it to 50
lakh / day ( leading to much higher ASSET – UTILIZATION and much higher ( RFID
based, automatic ) TOLL collection
Context :
E Way Bill integrated with FASTag, RFID : NIC / Eco
Times / 20 May 2021
Extract :
Ø GST
officers 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, a move
which will help in live vigilance of such vehicles and
check GST evasion.
Ø Additional
features have been added to the e-way bill mobile application of tax officers,
which will provide them real-time tracking details of e-way bill and
vehicle to help them nab tax evaders who are misusing the
e-way bill system
> In
the electronic way (e-way) bill system, businesses and transporters have
to
> On
an average 25 lakh
goods vehicle movements from more than 800
tolls are
Ø The integration of ,
# E-way bill,
# RFID , and
#
FasTag ,
will enable tax officers to undertake live vigilance in respect of e-way bill
compliances
real-time identification of cases of recycling of EWBs, non-generation of
EWBs.
Ø Taxmen
can now access reports on vehicles that have passed the selected tolls without e-way bills in the
past few minutes. Also, the vehicles carrying critical
commodities specific to the state and have passed the selected toll can be
viewed.
Ø Any
suspicious vehicles and vehicles of EWBs generated by suspicious taxpayer
GSTINs , that have passed the selected toll on a near real time basis,
can also be viewed in this report.
Ø The
officers can use of these reports while conducting
vigilance and make the vigilance activity more effective. Also, the
officers of audit and enforcement wing can use these reports to identify
the fraudulent transactions like bill trading, recycling of EWBs.
Ø AMRG Associates Senior Partner Rajat Mohan [ rajataggarwal008@gmail.com ] said "online real-time tracking of vehicles and goods would go a long way in tightening the lid on tax evaders. This mobile application for tax officers would empower them to catch hold of all the stakeholders involved in clandestine removal of goods."
Ø EY
India Tax Patner Abhishek Jain said CBIC had earlier
conveyed its intention to further digitise the process of
enforcement of e-way bill provisions under the GST law, and
in line with this idea, the e-way bill system has now been integrated with
the FasTag and RFID system, and MIS (Management Information Systems) reports
from the same will made available on officer's mobile app.
Ø "This
is a commendable move on the part of government and points towards the
development in the field of technology and how the government is pro-active in
using the same to ensure tax compliance and track fraudulent activities,"
Jain added.
Ø With
effect from January 1,
2021, the government has integrated RFID/FasTag with the e-way bill
system and a transporter is required to have a RFID tag in his
vehicle and details of the e-way bill generated for goods being carried by the
vehicle is uploaded into the RFID.
Ø When
the vehicle passes the RFID Tag reader on the highway, the
details fed into the device gets uploaded on the government portal.
Ø The
information is later used by the revenue officials to validate the supplies
made by a GST registered person.
Ø To
improve tax compliance, the government has also started blocking of EWB bill
generation if a GST registered taxpayer has not filed GSTR- 3B return for the
last two successive months.
Ø Also,
the government has blocked the generation of multiple EWBs on one invoice. If
the EWB is once generated using an invoice number or document number, then none
of the other parties can generate another EWB using the same invoice number.
Ø Besides,
the e-way bills system has enabled auto calculation of distance based on PIN
codes. The system will auto calculate the distance between the source and
destination, based on PIN codes.
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HOW COME, SLOW ?
Nearly
4 years ago,
I had sent following suggestion to our Cabinet Ministers / Policy Makers :
A New Way to
E-Way ? ………………………………..[ 15
July 2017 ]
WHAT DID YOU SUGGEST ?
Extract from that E
Mail :
My request / suggestion to GST
Council :
Ø
Aim to turn India’s highways into friction-less “ Conveyor Belts of Commerce “
Ø
Look up conveyor belts in the warehouses of Amazon / Flipkart /
UPS / FedEx etc , which carry hundreds of packages per minute – with each
package carrying dozens of different items ( can we replace “ packages “
with TRUCKS and “ conveyor
belts “ with HIGHWAYS ? )
Each item within each box,
has RFID chip and QR code ( interlinked )
Ø
Sensors placed along the conveyor belt “ reads “ each package
and each item inside each package . No need to stop the flow of the packages
Ø
E-way Bill too , will have all the QR Codes / RFID data , of
each item loaded onto the truck ( Price / Origin City / Destination City /
Supplier with GSTN registration number / Recipient with his GSTN registration
number / GST – ISGST – SGST amount for each item / Date of Dispatch / Validity
of E Way Bill etc )
Ø
Just like today’s Mobile
Apps of UPS / FedEx enable online
tracking of each package and of individual items within each
package , that “ high technology interface “ being proposed by
the Government should incorporate the following technologies :
# QR code
/ RFID chip
# GPS based NaviC .......................
( 30 Mar 2017
)
# Internet
of Things ( IoT )
# Internet of
Vehicles ( IoV )............ ( 04 Mar 2017 )
# BlueTooth /
NFC
Dear Members of GST Council :
Here is YOUR opportunity
to lead the way ( - in this case, the HIGHWAY ! )
There is no technical
reason why Software Super Power India, cannot lead the world in ,
“ Ease of Doing Business “
If you guarantee the
business / industry that “ NO INSPECTOR “
will stop the truck along its journey , they will willingly implement ANY / ALL
technologies to serve the purpose of E Way
Bill
Remember, all corruption
starts by permitting HUMANS to
“ interpret “ whether a given
process was “ correct / incorrect “ as prescribed – and collect their “ hafta “ for offering to interpret it in
favour of the Business / Industry , violating the process !
By implementing my suggestion " Fast Forward to IoV ? " ( 03 July 2017 )
, technology will SHUT
DOWN the truck engine , upon detection of a violation !
And automatically unlock the engine when the
violation gets corrected by EDITING the
E-Way Bill , on GSTN web site !
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Related Readings :
From
E-Way Bills to Express-ways of Commerce ? …………………….[ 18 April 2021 ]
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