For a seamless movement of goods across states, the Goods and Services Tax GST ) Council on Saturday decided to go for early implementation of e-Way Bill for inter-state movement of items from February 1 and uniform mandatory compliance from June one next year. "The rules for implementation of nationwide e-way Bill system for inter-State movement of goods on a compulsory basis will be notified with effect from February 1, 2018. This will bring uniformity across the states for seamless inter-state movement of goods. "While the system for both inter-state and intra-state e-Way Bill generation will be ready by January 16, 2018, the states may choose their own timings for implementation of e-Way Bill for intra-state movement of goods on any date before June 1, 2018," the statement clarified.There are certain states which are already having system of e-Way Bill for intra-state as well as inter-state movement and some of those states can be early adopters of national e-Way Bill system for intra-state movement also, it said.Till such time as National e-way Bill is ready, the states were authorised to continue their own separate e-Way Bill systems. "However, it was represented by the trade and transporters that this is causing undue hardship in inter-state movement of goods and therefore, bringing in an early all India system of e-Way Bill has become a necessity.

Source: Economic Times December 16, 2017 07:38 UTC