GST authorities to get real-time data of commercial vehicles

GST officers can have real-time data of commercial vehicle movement on highways with integration of the e-way bill (EWB) system with FasTag and RFID.

A 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.

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.

When the vehicle passes the RFID Tag reader on the highway, the details fed into the device gets uploaded on the government portal.

The information is later used by the revenue officials to validate the supplies made by a GST registered person.

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.

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.