Why is the successful roll-out of the e-way bill necessary?

[Priya Sharma]

Since the Goods and Services Tax has been implemented in India, it has been undergoing various changes and maintenance as per the needs and requirements of the taxpayers of the nation. The GST Council brought to everyone’s notice the information about the e-way billing system in India. The government made up the decision to launch and implement the system with full effect in the month of April 2018. But it happened early from the expected date and the whole act came as a shock to most of the businesses throughout the nation.

What actually the e-way bill promises?

As proposed by the government, the e-way bill curbs the inconvenience of the bottlenecks of the earlier system. Here’s what the GST e-way bill offers:

1. The new billing system launched for the transportation of the goods and services is a simplified and unified billing system. It builds a linkage between the moved and declared transportation of the goods and services. The system before GST was afflicted with the multiple form submissions and non-structured design that had a low capacity to stop the system leakage.
2. The RFID system integrated with the new regime takes the tediousness of the scrutiny and check-points away. Moreover, the unique codes make the process seamless. The GST bill details suggest the singular maintenance of the overall records of the taxation process. Same is the case with the e-way billing system. All the data is kept on a centralized platform for the access of the concerned authorities and public as well.
3. The GST e-way billing system is built around a structure that compliments the idea of digitalizing the nation and is a way ahead in the future. It is an easy-to-use process with a simplicity that does not take much of an input. The old-fashioned errors and delays in the transportation of the goods can be studied and eliminated with the help of the data generated by the GST e-way billing method.

The mandatory changes that the government has been bringing in the India GST bill details has proved to be beneficial for all making the taxation process even much easier. The trail run initiated before the formal implementation of the e-way bill sprung a surprising number of businesses involved in the registration and modification of the e-way billing system. The impressive participation and support of the businesses all over the nation made the whole situation seem like it’s under control until the portal crashed and the entire system deferred again.

The thought of the nation

Since there have been a lot of mishaps in the process of the roll-out of the e-way billing system, the taxpayers of the nation remained clueless about the upcoming move of the GST Council. Also, the people had to face the blow of completely negative and positive thoughts about the implementation of the e-way bill. And amidst all these confusions, the system, besides flaunting its promising and reliable side, couldn’t perform to prove so. It turned out to be the biggest blunder of the GST Council so far.

Now that the e-way billing system faces a temporary technology backlash, the people who already started to comply with the new rule are now swamped into uncertainty. Although the government will make the process come back in the form in no time by removing the glitches of the process, the assurance of the fact that there would be no more upcoming glitch in the system is feeble. But one point that is crystal clear is that the not even a single counteraction of the process is intended. Everything is a result of the technology that, one way or the other, comes with a glitch.

Summary

Keeping the strenuous and heartfelt efforts of the government and GST Council of the conservation of the flawless GST bill details in mind, the sane idea would be to think objectively about the e-way billing system. The potential of the process to could not be avoided by some mere technological glitches. And now that the government has initiated the process of making the people not only hear about but also live the concept of one tax, one nation, the people from every section of the society should pull their thoughts together, adopt a positive approach, and work together to achieve the same.

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